[Download free pdf] Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
• Prof. Ellen T. Harris •
| #4038408 in Books | 2002-01-30 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.43 x7.08 x10.18l, | File Name: 0674006178 | 448 pages
||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Not a Book for 'Joe the Listener'|By Gio|If you can't read musical notation, if you don't understand talk about chord progressions and deceptive cadences, this book will not be of interest to you. You may be tempted to try to read it by hearing that it discusses the vexed and vexing question of Handel's sexuality, but that discussion amounts to 5% of the whole contents. Even t|From Library Journal|Harris (music and theater arts, MIT) has written numerous scholarly studies on Handel's music. Here, she restricts herself to a discussion of his chamber cantatas from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual
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 Florence and Rome, and into the early part of his Londo...
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