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Purcell Manuscripts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Purcell Manuscripts

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.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 439

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Seen from the perspective of modern, interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, the companion allows the reader to develop a rounded view of the environment in which Purcell lived, the people with whom he worked, the social conditions that influenced his activities, and the ways in which the modern perception of him has been affected by reception of his music after his death. In this sense the contributions do not privilege the individual over the environment: rather...

The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 645

The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), best known today as the composer of "Rule, Britannia." It will appeal to those interested in the mid-to-late eighteenth-century London and Dublin theatre, opera, and music scenes.

1882-1887
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1168

1882-1887

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Con Che Soavità
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Con Che Soavità

This collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.

Some British Collectors of Music C.1600-1960
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Some British Collectors of Music C.1600-1960

Mr King describes the interests and activities of nearly two hundred music-collectors from the period of c.1600 to 1960.

Beethoven
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 770

Beethoven

Hailed as a masterpiece for its original interpretations of Beethoven's life and music. This edition takes into account the latest information and literature. Includes a 30-page bibliographical essay, numerous illustrations, and a full-color pictorial biography of the composer.

Annual Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Annual Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1843
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839

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Purcell Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Purcell Studies

The tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death fell in 1995, and this 1995 volume of specially commissioned essays was collected to celebrate Purcell's music in his tercentenary year. The essays are representative of the best 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 volume is well illustrated with music examples and photographs of important manuscripts. It also analyses Purcell's compositional techniques through detailed study of his manuscripts and reports on the discovery of two important autograph manuscripts. The book opens with an assessment of Purcell's illusive personality.