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Author : Robert Shay,Robert Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521028116
Major reference tool providing in-depth analysis of Purcell manuscript sources.
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317043270
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.
Author : Curtis Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521441749
The tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death fell in 1995, and this 1995 volume of specially commissioned essays was collected to celebrate Purcell's music in his tercentenary year. The essays are representative of the best research and deal mainly with the autograph manuscripts, Purcell's compositional technique, the relationship between Purcell and his teacher John Blow, a reassessment of Purcell court odes, performance practice and wordsetting, and eighteenth-century reception history, particularly regarding King Arthur. The volume is well illustrated with music examples and photographs of important manuscripts. It also analyses Purcell's compositional techniques through detailed study of his manuscripts and reports on the discovery of two important autograph manuscripts. The book opens with an assessment of Purcell's illusive personality.
Author : Alan Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107006669
The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.
Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190861445
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explores the work's historical position in the Restoration theater, revealing its roots in seventeenth-century English theatrical and musical traditions, and carefully evaluates the surviving sources for the various readings they offer-of line designations in the text (who sings what), the vocal ranges of the soloists, the use of dance and chorus, and overall layout. It goes on to provide substantive analysis of Purcell's musical declamation and use of ground bass. In tracing the performance history of Dido and Aeneas, Harris presents an in-depth examination of the adaptations made by the Academy of Ancient Music at the end of the eighteenth century based on the surviving manuscripts. She then follows the growing interest in the creation of an "authentic" version in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through published editions and performance reviews, and considers the opera as an important factor in the so-called English Musical Renaissance. To a significant degree, the continuing fascination with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas rests on its apparent mutability, and Harris shows this has been inherent in the opera effectively from its origin.
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107292321
Musical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understanding creativity during this period is particularly challenging because many of our basic assumptions about composition – such as concepts of originality, inspiration and genius – were not yet fully developed. In adopting a new methodology that takes into account the historical contexts in which sources were produced, Rebecca Herissone challenges current assumptions about compositional processes and offers new interpretations of the relationships between notation, performance, improvisation and musical memory. She uncovers a creative culture that was predominantly communal, and reveals several distinct approaches to composition, determined not by individuals, but by the practical function of the music. Herissone's new and original interpretations pose a fundamental challenge to our preconceptions about what it meant to be a composer in the seventeenth century and raise broader questions about the interpretation of early modern notation.
Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108490863
The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.
Author : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317043263
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.
Author : Mark Kroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107156074
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Author : Henry Purcell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Instrumental music
ISBN : HARVARD:32044040713109
Author : Linda Phyllis Austern,Candace Bailey,Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253024978
English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the boundaries between locations of musical performance and practice.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89073117582
Author : William Hayman Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X001580660
Author : Lelio Colista
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781987206289
Lelio Colista (1629–80) is considered the foremost composer of Italian trio sonatas in Rome before Corelli. In the Papal City, where he lived for most of his life, he was an acclaimed lutenist, composer, and teacher. He was part of a closely-knit professional milieu including the most appreciated instrumentalists of his generation, such as Alessandro Stradella, Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, and Carlo Mannelli. However, Colista’s trio sonatas were not published during his lifetime. No autograph has survived, and the many manuscript sources are today scattered throughout various European libraries. Their wide dissemination bears witness to the significant circulation of Colista’s trio sonatas in the last decades of the seventeenth century, particularly in England. This volume presents a critical edition of the complete output of Colista’s trio sonatas, and offers for the first time a full reassessment of the entire manuscript transmission, including all the known sources and concordances, as well as incomplete and doubtful works.
Author : Robert Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015037019349
Written to accompany the Tercentenery exhibition at The British Library to commemorate the death of the composer Henry Purcell, this study provides some insight into his attitudes, interests and working practices. Little is known about Purcell's personal life or character, but he is the first major English composer to have left a substantial body of autograph music manuscripts, together with copies made by his close colleagues, Many of his manuscripts are shown here, together with portraits and contemporary London scenes.