This collection of essays marks the tercentenary in 1995 of Purcell's death. The essays represent the best recent 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 book contains the first written reports on the discovery of two important autograph manuscripts.
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This collection of essays marks the tercentenary of Purcell's death in 1995. The essays represent the best recent 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 book contains the first written reports on the discovery of two important autograph manuscripts.
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Purcell's three great autograph scorebooks- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Music MS 88, British Library Add. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
straight iambic lines, infusion scene, absence unconcerned, court odes, inverted first foot, orchestral anthems, symphony anthem, hardy climes, thy cov, funeral sentences, swifter flow, bold rebellion, opening symphony, duple metre, new year ode, welcome song, full anthems, first copyist, thy glo, triple metre, ter pains, ber break, beloved spake, verse anthem, trochaic lines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry Purcell, King Arthur, British Library Add, Christ Church, John Blow, Chapel Royal, The Fairy Queen, Barber Institute, Musica Britannica, English Court Odes, Bruce Wood, Don Quixote, Swifter Isis, Nigel Fortune, Robert Thompson, First Book, Orlando Gibbons, Six Select Sutes, The Musical Times, David Garrick, Pelham Humfrey, Watkins Shaw, Lisa Cox, New York, The Yorkshire Feast Song New!
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Purcell's three great autograph scorebooks- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Music MS 88, British Library Add. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
straight iambic lines, infusion scene, absence unconcerned, court odes, inverted first foot, orchestral anthems, symphony anthem, hardy climes, thy cov, funeral sentences, swifter flow, bold rebellion, opening symphony, duple metre, new year ode, welcome song, full anthems, first copyist, thy glo, triple metre, ter pains, ber break, beloved spake, verse anthem, trochaic lines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Henry Purcell, King Arthur, British Library Add, Christ Church, John Blow, Chapel Royal, The Fairy Queen, Barber Institute, Musica Britannica, English Court Odes, Bruce Wood, Don Quixote, Swifter Isis, Nigel Fortune, Robert Thompson, First Book, Orlando Gibbons, Six Select Sutes, The Musical Times, David Garrick, Pelham Humfrey, Watkins Shaw, Lisa Cox, New York, The Yorkshire Feast Song New!
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- Dido and Aeneas by Ellen Harris on 25 pages
- Henry Purcell by Robert King on 22 pages
- The Fairy Queen: Chorus Parts (Faber Edition) by Henry Purcell on 20 pages
- Henry Purcell by I. Holst on 7 pages
- Henry Purcell and the London Stage by C. A. Price on 6 pages
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- Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century by Suzannah Clark on page 60, and Back Matter
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