Wendy R Heller

Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women w...

A concise anthology including a wide range of Baroque music.Anthology for Music in the Baroque, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Baroque. Twenty-six carefully chosen works―including a lute song by John Dowland, a cantata by Barbara Strozzi, and sele...

Baroque music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Wendy Heller's Music in the Baroque traces the production and consumption of music in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Going beyond a history of styles, the text explores patronage, education, religious and civic ritual, ...

Confident that there is more to life than her cage, and despite the taunts of other birds in the pet shop, a canary tries to develop her capacities to sing and to fly.

Tales from around the world retold simply and vividly by Wendy Heller and illustrated with pencil drawings.

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