Handel as Orpheus

Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas

Ellen T. Harris

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$34.50 • £27.95 • €31.00

ISBN 9780674015982

Publication Date: 09/30/2004

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448 pages

135 musical examples, 9 halftones, 9 tables

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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

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Awards & Accolades

2002 Otto Kinkeldey Award, American Musicological Society

2002–2003 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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