Henry Purcell, 1659-1695; essays on his music.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, New York, Oxford University Press [1959]Description: 136 pSubject(s):
Contents:
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.
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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.