Handel as Orpheus
Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
Published on 30. September 2004
448 pages
978-0-674-27345-0 (ISBN)
Description
Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-27345-0 (9780674273450)
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01/2002
Harvard University Press
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Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Note on the Musical Examples Prologue: "The Ways of the World" Chapter 1. Code Names and Assumed Identities Chapter 2. Women's Voices/Men's Voices Chapter 3. Pastoral Lovers Chapter 4. Cantata Couples and Love Triangles Chapter 5. Silence and Secrecy Chapter 6. Culmination of the Private Epilogue: "True Representation" Appendix 1: Cantata Chronology Appendix 2: Texts and Translations of the Continuo Cantatas Bibliographic Abbreviations Notes Title Index of Handel's Cantatas, Duets, and Trios General Index
