- 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


Handel as Orpheus
Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
Product Details
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$35.50 • £28.95 • €32.00
ISBN 9780674015982
Publication Date: 09/30/2004
Awards & Accolades
- 2002 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society