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Handel as Orpheus : voice and desire in the chamber cantatas

"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."
Print Book, English, 2001
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2001
Cantatas
xi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780674006171, 0674006178
47013295
Acknowledgmentsix
Note on the Musical Examplesxii
Prologue: ``The Ways of the World''1(24)
Code Names and Assumed Identities
25(24)
Women's Voices/Men's Voices
49(36)
Pastoral Lovers
85(42)
Cantata Couples and Love Triangles
127(44)
Silence and Secrecy
171(39)
Culmination of the Private
210(30)
Epilogue: ``True Representation''240(27)
Appendix 1: Cantata Chronology267(30)
Appendix 2: Texts and Translations of the Continuo Cantatas297(70)
Bibliographic Abbreviations367(1)
Notes367(50)
Title Index of Handel's Cantatas, Duets, and Trios417(4)
General Index421
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