Purcell / edited by Peter Holman.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Farnham : Ashgate, ©2010.
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xxxvi, 539 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm

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    Summary note
    The 23 articles in this volume have been chosen by Peter Holman as a representative selection of the best scholarly writing over the last few decades, featuring most of the leading Purcell scholars--Publisher description.
    Notes
    Previously published articles.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Part I Biography and Contexts:
    • Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow / Bruce Wood
    • The Italian connection: Giovanni Battista Draghi and Henry Purcell / Peter Holman
    • Purcell's stage singers and Purcell's stage singers: a documentary list / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson
    • 'He had the honour to be your master': Lady Rhoda Cavendish's music lessons with Henry Purcell / Michael Burden
    • Letter from Aleppo: dating the Chelsea School performance of Dido and Aeneas / Bryan White.
    • Part II Sources, Editing and Dissemination:
    • Manuscript music in Purcell's London / Robert Thompson
    • Creating the corpus: the 'complete keyboard music' of Henry Purcell / Christopher Hogwood
    • The Fairy Queen: a fresh look at the issues / Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock
    • Newly discovered autograph keyboard music of Purcell and Draghi / Curtis Price
    • Purcell's Rejoice in the Lord, all ways / Lionel Pike
    • Robert Pindar, Thomas Busby, and the mysterious scoring of Henry Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art / Rebecca Herissone.
    • Part III Styles, Genres and Compositional Process:
    • The technique and forms of Purcell's sonatas / Michael Tilmouth
    • Purcell's extended solo songs / Margaret Laurie
    • Purcell's Laudate Ceciliam: an essay in stylistic experimentation / Martin Adams
    • Purcell's revisions to the funeral sentences revisited / Robert Shay
    • Compositional choices in Henry Purcell's Three Parts Upon a Ground / Peter Holman
    • Composition as an act of performance: artifice and expression in Purcell's sacred partsong Since God So Tender a Regard / Alan Howard
    • 'Fowle originalls' and 'fayre writeing': reconsidering Purcell's compositional process / Rebecca Herissone.
    • Part IV Performance, Performance Practice and Reception:
    • The Shakespeare-Purcell Fairy Queen: a defence and recommendation / Roger Savage
    • Continuity and tempo in Purcell's vocal works / A. Margaret Laurie
    • The first performance of Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary / Bruce Wood
    • 'Or rather our musical Shakespeare': Charles Burney's Purcell / Richard Luckett
    • Purcell debauch'd: the Dramatick Operas in performance / Michael Burden.
    ISBN
    • 9780754628965 ((hbk.))
    • 0754628965 ((hbk.))
    OCLC
    697772362
    Other standard number
    • 99942156675
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