Purcell Studies
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- Editor: Curtis Price, Royal Academy of Music, London
- Date Published: November 2006
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- isbn: 9780521032735
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This collection of essays marks the tercentenary in 1995 of Purcell's death. The essays represent the best recent research and deal mainly with the autograph manuscripts, Purcell's compositional technique, the relationship between Purcell and his teacher John Blow, a reassessment of Purcell court odes, performance practice and wordsetting, and eighteenth-century reception history, particularly regarding King Arthur. The book contains the first written reports on the discovery of two important autograph manuscripts.
Read more- Published to commemorate the tercentenary of Purcell's death in 1995
- The best of modern scholarship on one of Britain's greatest composers
- Contains the first written reports on the discovery of new Purcell manuscripts
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"The book is a must for serious Purcell scholars." Mark A. Radice, Notes
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521032735
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.483kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus. 11 tables 82 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction: in search of Purcell's character Curtis Price
1. Purcell's great autographs Robert Thompson
2. Purcell as collector of 'ancient' music: Fitzwilliam MS 88 Robert Shay
3. Purcell's revisions of his own works Rebecca Herissone
4. New light on Purcell's keyboard music Curtis Price
5. Purcell and Roseingrave: a new autograph Peter Holman
6. 'Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow' Bruce Wood
7. Purcell's odes: propaganda and panegyric Ian Spink
8. Purcell, Blow and the English court ode Martin Adams
9. Continuity and tempo in Purcell's vocal works A. Margaret Laurie
10. Poetic metre, musical metre and the dance in Purcell's songs Katherine Rohrer
11. King Arthur expos'd: a lesson in anatomy Andrew Pinnock
12. King Arthur's journey into the eighteenth-century Ellen T. Harris
Afterword: a portrait of Henry Purcell Janet Snowman
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