Handel As Orpheus - Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas

Informationen zum Autor Ellen T. Harris is Class of 1949 Professor and Head of Music and Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Klappentext Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments that describe 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. This work brings greater understanding of Handel's development as a composer and new insight into the role of sexuality in artistic expression. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgments * Note on the Musical Examples * 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" * 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

Product details

• Authors: Ellen T Harris, Ellen T. Harris, Harris Ellen T.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9780674015982
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01598-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Choral, baroque, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Choral Music, Chamber ensembles