JEAN-JOSEPH CASSANÉA DE MONDONVILLE (1711-1772) SIX SONATES EN SYMPHONIE, OP. 3 Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski Archiv 474 550-2, 2003; one disc, 0'58''; REVIEWS; REVIEWS

VOICE AND DESIRE IN THE CHAMBER CANTATAS Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001pp. xi + 430, ISBN 0 674 00617 8 Contrary to rumours that circulated in advance of this books publication, Handel as Orpheus is not a monograph about Handels sexuality. Harris argues that Cardinal Pamphilis Orphic cantata Hendel non po mia musa (Rome, ?1707) was strongly reminiscent of Orpheuss sexual preferences in the sense that there is a significant amount of specifically homoerotic innuendo in the text. 305 reviews [Flower3hbl] books Eighteenth-Century Music 2004 Cambridge University Press : 10.1017/S1478570604210181 Printed in the United Kingdom [Flower3hbl] REVIEWS (A secondary source on metaphor in fifteenth- to seventeenth-century Italian texts supports this interpretation.) She detects a possible musical response to this innuendo in a progression from syncopation to a smoother rhythmic movement in Handels score. Harris plausibly argues that the artificial tone and deliberate blurring of gender identities in the pastoral literary tradition rendered it highly suitable for expressions of same-sex love, which, in the context of social mores of the time, had to remain concealed. [...]the intricate research required to establish each interpretative point can be presented in a review only in highly condensed form; this necessary process can sometimes obscure the force of an argument.