Handel as Orpheus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handel as Orpheus write by Ellen T. Harris. This book was released on 2004-09-30. Handel as Orpheus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.
Handel as Orpheus
Handel as Orpheus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handel as Orpheus write by Ellen T. Harris. This book was released on 2004-09-30. Handel as Orpheus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.
George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends write by Ellen T. Harris. This book was released on 2014-09-29. George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document—Handel’s will—offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel’s music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel’s friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.
A Poetics of Handel's Operas
A Poetics of Handel's Operas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Poetics of Handel's Operas write by Nathan Link. This book was released on 2023. A Poetics of Handel's Operas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Poetics of Handel's Operas investigates the rich representational fabric of Handel's stories, drawing upon musicology, narratology, drama, and film in offering a study with appeal to scholars, producers and performers, opera afficionados, and anyone fascinated by storytelling. In most storytelling genres, we often distinguish between the story, on the one hand, and the way that story is represented, on the other, without a second thought. We know that a character in a film hears neither her own voice-over nor the ambient music that accompanies it, and that she does not really build a house from the ground up in the three minutes spanned by the cinematic montage that depict its construction. In opera, however, many commentators to this day characterize the medium as "unrealistic," since we know, for example, that people in the real world do not sing to each other, nor does orchestral music accompany their utterances. This said, the vocal and orchestral music, while not literally present in the world of the story surely have a great deal to tell us about the opera's story and its characters, and if we distinguish the performance we see and hear on the stage and in the orchestra pit from the story represented, we enable ourselves to construct stories that are no less coherent than those conveyed by other media. By avoiding conflation of the story and its representation, we enable ourselves to engage more meaningfully with the significance of these and many other unique aspects of operatic storytelling"--
Queer People
Queer People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer People write by Chris Mounsey. This book was released on 2007. Queer People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring canonical and non-canonical literature, scurrilous pamphlets and court cases, music, religion and politics, consumer culture and sexual subcultures, these essays concern the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century
