Handel as Orpheus

Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas

Ellen T. Harris

  • 2002-03 Louis Gottschalk Prize, Sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Winner of the American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Award

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

  • Cover: Handel as Orpheus
  • A photo of the author

Ellen Harris is Class of 1949 Professor and Head of Music and Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.