Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674015982ISBN-10:674015983UPC:9780674015982Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Instruction & Study, History & CriticismBook Topic:Classical, VoiceSize:9.60 x 6.44 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.5719Product ID:SC15H7XXJ0
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.
The cantatas were written between 1706 and 1723--from the time Handel left his home in Germany, through the years he spent in...Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674015982ISBN-10:674015983UPC:9780674015982Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Instruction & Study, History & CriticismBook Topic:Classical, VoiceSize:9.60 x 6.44 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.5719Product ID:SC15H7XXJ0
Harris, Ellen T.: - Ellen T. Harris is Class of 1949 Professor and Head of Music and Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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