This title provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of research into Purcell and the world of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the world of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Coverage includes: the sources of Purcell's music and tran…
This title provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of research into Purcell and the world of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the world of Restoration music, with contributions from leading experts in the field. Coverage includes: the sources of Purcell's music and tran…
Purcell's trio sonatas -- Harmony and counterpoint in the service of rhetoric -- Indiscernible structures -- Proportional symmetry and asymmetry -- Mirror symmetry and its implications -- Double fugue, triple fugue, and commutatio -- Ground bass
This book opens an important window to seventeenth-century compositional technique and offers further evidence of Purcell's use of advanced compositional techniques in works that aimed to be pleasurable for the amateur and excitingly thought-provoking for the professional. --fro…
Purcell's trio sonatas are among the cornerstones of Baroque chamber music. The composer himself unassumingly described them as "a just imitation of the most famed Italian masters." However, analysis of their underlying structures reveals that Purcell's modesty hides a highly or…
The Baroque composers
Henry Purcell
by Fabris, Dinko, Garofalo, Antonella
fromConstellatio musica (Palermo, Italy)