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
Acknowledgments | ix | ||||
Note on the Musical Examples | xii | ||||
Prologue: ``The Ways of the World'' | 1 | (24) | |||
| 25 | (24) | |||
| 49 | (36) | |||
| 85 | (42) | |||
| 127 | (44) | |||
| 171 | (39) | |||
| 210 | (30) | |||
Epilogue: ``True Representation'' | 240 | (27) | |||
Appendix 1: Cantata Chronology | 267 | (30) | |||
Appendix 2: Texts and Translations of the Continuo Cantatas | 297 | (70) | |||
Bibliographic Abbreviations | 367 | (1) | |||
Notes | 367 | (50) | |||
Title Index of Handel's Cantatas, Duets, and Trios | 417 | (4) | |||
General Index | 421 |
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