TY - BOOK AU - Holst,Imogen TI - Henry Purcell, 1659-1695: essays on his music PY - 1959///] CY - London, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Purcell, Henry, N1 - Homage to the British Orpheus / Peter Pears -- On realizing the continuo in Purcell's songs / Benjamin Britten -- New light on Dido and Aeneas / Eric Walter White -- Purcell's librettist, Nahurm Tate / Imogen Holst -- Our sense of continuity in English drama and music / Michael Tippett -- Purcell and the Chapel Royal / Jeremy Noble -- An organist's view of the organ works / Ralph Downes -- Performing Purcell's music today / Robert Donington -- Purcell's handwriting / Franklin B. Zimmerman -- Appendix A. Purcell's autographs / Nigel Fortune and Franklin B. Zimmerman -- Appendix B. Further seventeenth- and eighteenth-century evidence bearing on the performance of Purcell's works / Robert Donington -- Appendix C.A note on the Nanki collection of Purcell's works / Imogen Holst ER -