Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The Works of Henry Purcell: Sacred music, part 4-6
Author: Henry PurcellThe Works of Henry Purcell: Sacred Music. Part VI
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Dramatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Works of Henry Purcell: Sacred Music. Part IV
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Dramatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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 Works of Henry Purcell: Sacred music, part 2
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Instrumental music
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Works of Henry Purcell: Sacred music, part 4-6
Author: Henry PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Instrumental music
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Studies in English Church Music, 1550-1900
Author: Nicholas TemperleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100094767X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Nicholas Temperley has pioneered the history of popular church music in England, as expounded in his classic 1979 study, The Music of the English Parish Church; his Hymn Tune Index of 1998; and his magisterial articles in The New Grove. This volume brings together fourteen shorter essays from various journals and symposia, both British and American, that are often hard to find and may be less familiar to many scholars and students in the field. Here we have studies of how singing in church strayed from artistic control during its neglect in the 16th and 17th centuries, how the vernacular 'fuging tune' of West Gallery choirs grew up, and how individuals like Playford, Croft, Madan, and Stainer set about raising artistic standards. There are also assessments of the part played by charity in the improvement of church music, the effect of the English organ and the reasons why it never inspired anything resembling the German organ chorale, and the origins of congregational psalm chanting in late Georgian York. Whatever the topic, Temperley takes a fresh approach based on careful research, while refusing to adopt artistic or religious preconceptions.
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