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Author | : Robert King |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
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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.
Author | : Mary Jo Salter |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Franklin B. Zimmerman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Alon Schab |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Rebecca Herissone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 131704326X |
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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, they use the modern reader's familiarity with Purcell's music as a gateway into the broader Restoration world. Topics include a reassessment of our understanding of Purcell's sources and the transmission of his music; new ways of approaching the study of his creative methods; performance practice; the multi-faceted theatre environment in which his work was focused in the last five years of his life; the importance of the political and social contexts of late seventeenth-century England; and the ways in which the performance history and reception of his music have influenced modern appreciation of the composer. The book will be essential reading for anyone studying the music and culture of the seventeenth century.
Author | : Dennis Arundell |
Publisher | : London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan Howard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 110700666X |
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The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.
Author | : Ellen T. Harris |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190861444 |
Download Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explores the work's historical position in the Restoration theater, revealing its roots in seventeenth-century English theatrical and musical traditions, and carefully evaluates the surviving sources for the various readings they offer-of line designations in the text (who sings what), the vocal ranges of the soloists, the use of dance and chorus, and overall layout. It goes on to provide substantive analysis of Purcell's musical declamation and use of ground bass. In tracing the performance history of Dido and Aeneas, Harris presents an in-depth examination of the adaptations made by the Academy of Ancient Music at the end of the eighteenth century based on the surviving manuscripts. She then follows the growing interest in the creation of an "authentic" version in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through published editions and performance reviews, and considers the opera as an important factor in the so-called English Musical Renaissance. To a significant degree, the continuing fascination with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas rests on its apparent mutability, and Harris shows this has been inherent in the opera effectively from its origin.
Author | : C. A. Price |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1984-06-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521238311 |
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This book was the first comprehensive survey of Purcell's dramatic music. It is concerned as much with the London theatre world - playhouses, poets, actors, singers, producers - as with the music itself. Purcell wrote music for more than fifty plays of various types, most of them produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, between 1690 and 1695. The songs, dialogues, choruses, act tunes and larger musical scenes are often active participants in the spoken drama, not simply grafted-on entertainments. The extraordinary semi-operas - Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen - are placed in the context of a theatre that thrived mainly on plays that, though less lavish, were no less musical. The traditional picture of a composer trapped within a degraded musical society, his natural predilection for opera ignored, is redrawn to show a consummate dramatist exploiting a remarkably musical theatre.
Author | : Dr Rebecca Herissone |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2013-01-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 140949554X |
Download The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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, they use the modern reader's familiarity with Purcell's music as a gateway into the broader Restoration world.