Author: Franklin B. ZimmermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Henry Purcell, 1959-1695
Author: Franklin B. ZimmermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Henry Purcell
Author: Franklin B. ZimmermanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
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 1659-1695
Author: British MuseumHenry Purcell 1659 (?)-1695, George Friedrich Haendel 1685-1759
Author: British MuseumHenry Purcell
Author: Martin AdamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521431590
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell
Author: Rebecca HerissonePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317043278
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
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.
The Sonatas of Henry Purcell
Author: Alon SchabPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580469205
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Purcell Manuscripts
Author: Robert ShayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521028110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Henry Purcell, 1659?-1695, George Frideric Handel, 1685-1759
Author: British MuseumPublisher: London : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : British Museum
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Britten's Unquiet Pasts
Author: Heather WiebePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521194679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.