Curtis Price (ed.)

Purcell Studies

Herausgeber: Price, Curtis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Table of contents:
Introduction: in search of Purcell's character Curtis Price; 1. Purcell's great autographs Robert Thompson; 2. Purcell as collector of 'ancient' music: Fitzwilliam MS 88 Robert Shay; 3. Purcell's revisions of his own works Rebecca Herrissone; 4. New light on Purcell's keyboard music Curtis Price; 5. Purcell and Roseingrave: a new autograph Peter Holman; 6. 'Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow' Bruce Wood; 7. Purcell's odes: propaganda and panegyric Ian Spink; 8. Purcell, Blow and the English court ode Martin Adams; 9. Continuity and tempo in Purcell's vocal works A. Margaret Laurie; 10. Poetic metre, musical metre and the dance in Purcell's songs Katherine Rohrer; 11. King Arthur expos'd: a lesson in anatomy Andrew Pinnock; 12. King Arthur's journey into the eighteenth-century Ellen T. Harris; Index.

This collection of essays on Purcell was published to mark the tercentenary of his death in 1695. The essays represent the best recent research, including studies of compositional technique, performance practice, and eighteenth-century reception history. Two newly discovered manuscripts are discussed for the first time.

Essays commemorating the 1995 tercentenary of Purcell's death, representing the best recent research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780521441742
• ISBN-10: 0521441749
• Artikelnr.: 21701813

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction: in search of Purcell's character Curtis Price
1. Purcell's great autographs Robert Thompson
2. Purcell as collector of 'ancient' music: Fitzwilliam MS 88 Robert Shay
3. Purcell's revisions of his own works Rebecca Herissone
4. New light on Purcell's keyboard music Curtis Price
5. Purcell and Roseingrave: a new autograph Peter Holman
6. 'Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow' Bruce Wood
7. Purcell's odes: propaganda and panegyric Ian Spink
8. Purcell, Blow and the English court ode Martin Adams
9. Continuity and tempo in Purcell's vocal works A. Margaret Laurie
10. Poetic metre, musical metre and the dance in Purcell's songs Katherine Rohrer
11. King Arthur expos'd: a lesson in anatomy Andrew Pinnock
12. King Arthur's journey into the eighteenth-century Ellen T. Harris
Afterword: a portrait of Henry Purcell Janet Snowman
Index.