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Purcell / edited by Peter Holman.
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English
Published/Created
Farnham : Ashgate, ©2010.
Description
xxxvi, 539 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML410.P93 H6 2011
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Purcell, Henry 1659-1695
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Criticism and interpretation
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Holman, Peter, 1946-
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Baroque composers
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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.
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ISBN
9780754628965 ((hbk.))
0754628965 ((hbk.))
OCLC
697772362
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99942156675
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