Performing the Music of Henry Purcell
Performing the Music of Henry Purcell

Author: Michael Burden

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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This book, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Purcell's death, is the first to be devoted to the performance of his music. The contributors--all leading scholars and performers--deal with issues of performance practice relating both to playing the music and staging the operas.

Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell

Author: Martin Adams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-03-09

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780521431590

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Using a mix of broad stylistic observation and detailed analysis, Adams distinguishes between late-seventeenth-century English style in general and Purcell's style in particular, and chronicles the changes in the composer's approach to the main genres in which he worked, especially the newly emerging ode and English opera. As a result, Adams reveals that although Purcell went through a marked stylistic development, encompassing an unusually wide range of surface changes, special elements of his style remained constant.

The Sonatas of Henry Purcell
The Sonatas of Henry Purcell

Author: Alon Schab

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1580469205

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This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing.

Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell

Author: Robert King

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Of Purcell the man very little is known, and his personality has to be reconstructed through the age in which he lived, the circumstances of his professional life, the men and women who knew him, and above all through his music. Robert King weaves a masterly narrative, bringing together politics (always in the forefront of Purcell's fortunes), religion, society and the theater, relating all this to the state of music at the time - instruments, techniques, foreign influences, and formal innovations.

Purcell
Purcell

Author: Henri Dupré

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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The name and work of Henry Purcell are known to writers upon music, composers, and organists both in and out of England. This book, then, is intended for musical amateurs desirous of widening the range of their knowledge. We have not thought it fitting to isolate Purcell from his period and surroundings. The slight historical survey and the few remarks of a literary order that the reader will find in this book have as their object to throw the figure of the English musician into relief. - Preface.

Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell

Author: Franklin B. Zimmerman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1512809098

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.