Purcell Manuscripts
Purcell Manuscripts

Author: Robert Shay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780521028110

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Few details are known about the life of Henry Purcell. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the most obvious documentary evidence of Purcell's career - the music manuscripts of his own hand and those copied by his colleagues. Robert Shay and Robert Thompson offer a richly illustrated study of Purcell's sources, examining in detail the physical features of the manuscripts as well as their musical content. Their survey sheds light on the chronology of composition and copying of Purcell's works and reassesses the place of extant autographs in his musical development. Major sources are fully catalogued, providing information about the context in which Purcell's music was collected and performed, and his handwriting is more closely examined than ever before. The book represents a significant reference tool for scholars, applying a forensic approach that greatly enriches our knowledge of the composer and the music of his time.

Routledge Revivals: Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself (2003)
Routledge Revivals: Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself (2003)

Author: Michael Kassler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1351119567

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Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn. They include an account of Horn’s father, Charles Frederick Horn, who arrived penniless in London in 1782 and rose to become music master to Queen Charlotte. Today he is most remembered for his pioneering publications of J.S. Bach’s music in England. Charles Edward Horn’s memoir covers his activities in England and Ireland and provide numerous details of English musical life in the Georgian era not previously known to scholars. They are supplemented in this book by transcripts of four other autobiographical accounts of the Horns, a summary of their extant correspondence and a chronology of their activities.

The Bookseller
The Bookseller

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Published: 1917

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13:

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The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645
The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645

Author: John Patrick Cunningham

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0954680979

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This book looks at the work of one of England's finest composers, William Lawes. It provides a contextual examination of music at the court of Charles I, a detailed study of Lawes's autograph sources and an examination of his consort music.