Purcell Studies

Author : Curtis Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521441749

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Purcell Studies by Curtis Price Pdf

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 : Rebecca Herissone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317043263

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell by Rebecca Herissone Pdf

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 : Robert Shay,Robert Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521028116

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Purcell Manuscripts by Robert Shay,Robert Thompson Pdf

Few details are known about the life of Henry Purcell. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the most obvious documentary evidence of Purcell's career - the music manuscripts of his own hand and those copied by his colleagues. Robert Shay and Robert Thompson offer a richly illustrated study of Purcell's sources, examining in detail the physical features of the manuscripts as well as their musical content. Their survey sheds light on the chronology of composition and copying of Purcell's works and reassesses the place of extant autographs in his musical development. Major sources are fully catalogued, providing information about the context in which Purcell's music was collected and performed, and his handwriting is more closely examined than ever before. The book represents a significant reference tool for scholars, applying a forensic approach that greatly enriches our knowledge of the composer and the music of his time.

Author : Alon Schab
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580469203

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The Sonatas of Henry Purcell by Alon Schab Pdf

This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing.

Author : Peter Holman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Composition (Music)
ISBN : 1383007756

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Henry Purcell by Peter Holman Pdf

This exhaustive survey of Purcell's music has been published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the composer's death. It explores the institutions he worked for, the origin and development of the various genres to which he contributed, and the sources of his music.

Author : Alan Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107006669

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Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell by Alan Howard Pdf

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

Author : Martin Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 052143159X

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Henry Purcell by Martin Adams Pdf

Using a mix of broad stylistic observation and detailed analysis, Adams distinguishes between late-seventeenth-century English style in general and Purcell's style in particular, and chronicles the changes in the composer's approach to the main genres in which he worked, especially the newly emerging ode and English opera. As a result, Adams reveals that although Purcell went through a marked stylistic development, encompassing an unusually wide range of surface changes, special elements of his style remained constant.

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190861445

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Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by Ellen T. Harris Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:58770544

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HENRY PURCELL by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135919252

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Recapturing Democracy by Mark Purcell Pdf

Recapturing Democracy is a short yet synoptic introduction to urban democracy in our era of political neoliberalism and economic globalization. Combining an original argument with a number of case studies, Mark Purcell explores the condition of democracy in contemporary Western cities. Whereas many scholars focus on what Purcell calls "procedural democracy" – i.e., electoral politics and access to it – he instead assesses "substantive democracy." By this he means the people’s ability to have some say over issues of social justice, material well being, and economic equality. Neoliberalism, which advocates a diminished role for the state and increasing power for mobile capital, has diminished substantive democracy in recent times, he argues. He looks at case studies where this has occurred and at others that show how neoliberalism can be resisted in the name of substantive democracy. Ultimately, he utilizes Henri Lefebvre’s notion of "the right to the city," which encompasses substantive as well as procedural democracy for ordinary urban citizens.

Author : William Hayman Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015007878534

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Purcell by William Hayman Cummings Pdf

Author : Brenda Russell,John Purcell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470185681

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Online Research Essentials by Brenda Russell,John Purcell Pdf

Online Research Essentials Designing and Implementing Research Studies Online Research Essentials Written by experts in the field, Online Research Essentials provides step-b-step guidance to the student or new practitioner in how to create, test, and deploy online survey research. The book includes everything needed for planning and developing a survey, putting it online, and formatting data for further analysis. Russell and Purcell provide support for using the popular Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver web page authoring tools and for using the Access database that is used to collect and store survey results. Online Research Essentials is a comprehensive resource that discusses the practical aspects of survey development and applied research and offers information on a wide range of research-related topics that include: Scientific method and research design Ethical considerations on using the Internet for research Creating web pages Planning the research study Creating a simple survey on the Internet Developing an e-survey Creating more complicated Internet surveys Sampling procedures Developing experimental designs JavaScript and web programming and advanced JavaScript programming Repeated measures and matched group designs

Author : Franklin B. Zimmerman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512809091

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Henry Purcell by Franklin B. Zimmerman Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Kim Purcell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101566923

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Trafficked by Kim Purcell Pdf

Hannah has struggled ever since her parents were killed and her beloved uncle vanished. So when she's offered the chance to leave Moldova and become a nanny for a family in Los Angeles, it seems like a dream come true-and at first it is. But after weeks of working sixteen-hour days and not being able to leave the house, she still hasn't been paid. As things go from bad to worse, Hannah realizes that things are not at all what they seem and she finds herself doing things she never imagined herself capable of. But as she begins uncovering the family's crooked history, she may be exposing more than she bargained on-and putting her life in danger.

Author : Dave Beck,Rod Purcell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315528595

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Community Development for Social Change by Dave Beck,Rod Purcell Pdf

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context. The book integrates the realities of practice to key underpinning theories, human rights, values and a commitment to promoting social justice. A range of practice models are described and analysed, including UK models, popular education and community organising, as well as a range of practice issues that need to be understood by community development workers. For example, strategies to promote individual and community empowerment, challenging discrimination, building and sustaining groups, and critical reflection on practice. Finally, a range of case studies from the UK and overseas illustrates good practice in diverse contexts. These case studies are analysed with reference to the values of community development, the promotion of social justice and the underpinning theories. It is an essential text for those on community development courses as well as for a range of workers, including local government, national and local voluntary agencies, and community-based organisations.