Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas / Ellen T. Harris.
Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas / Ellen T. Harris.
Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas / Ellen T. Harris.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N782.48092/1
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English
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Physical content
xi, 430 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
Prologue: "The Ways of the World" -- 1. Code Names and Assumed Identities -- 2. Women's Voices/Men's Voices -- 3. Pastoral Lovers -- 4. Cantata Couples and Love Triangles -- 5. Silence and Secrecy -- 6. Culmination of the Private -- Epilogue: "True Representation" -- App. 1. Cantata Chronology -- Ap...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2001.
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Summary
"Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments that describe the joy and pain of love. In Handel as Orpheus, the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Ellen Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty." "The cantatas were written between 1706 and 1723 - from the time Handel le...
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Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas / Ellen T. Harris.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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N782.48092/1
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74Vv0OzOkWKZ
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0674015983 (pbk.)
9780674006171 (alk. paper)
0674006178 (alk. paper)
9780674015982 (pbk.)
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782.48092
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991015756919702626
