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.

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.