Beschreibung:
Applies the notion of musical "voice" to diverse repertoires, ranging from the operas and cantatas of Handel to the autograph albums of nineteenth-century collector Charlotte de Rothschild.
The Choices of Hercules and Handel - Ruth SmithThe Cantata as Narrative: Serials, Colloquies, and Commemoratives - Ellen T. HarrisCommunities of Time in Handel's Opera - Nathan LinkThe Metastasian Sonosphere - Giovanni MorelliMusic for a Saxon Princess - Rebecca CypessText, Voice, and Genre in "Nun ist der Herr zur Ruh gebracht" - Daniel R. MelamedHappy and Sad: Robert Schumann's Art of Ambiguity - Kristina MuxfeldtBeethoven's Handel and the Messiah - Bathia ChurginThe Livre d'or of Charlotte de Rothschild - Philip GossettThe Art of Artlessness, or Adelina Patti Teaches Us How to Be Natural - Roger FreitasManly Music: Reading Victorian Language - Ruth SolieSelected BibliographyList of Contributors