Purcell

Name: Purcell
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198163411
Price: 13850 KES
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ISBN: 9780198163411

by Holman

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Oxford Studies of Composers

ISBN-10 019816341X

ISBN-13 9780198163411

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 15th, 1994

Print length 268 Pages

Weight 372 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 14.20 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Individual artists, art monographs Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)Opera Sacred & religious music Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups

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This is the first general survey of Purcell's music for a generation, and is published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Purcell's death.

In recent years Purcell''s biography has received a good deal of attention, but there has been little writing on his music; indeed, this book provides the first general survey since Sir Jack Westrup''s 1937 volume in the Master Musicians series. Furthermore, it is the first book to explore in detail the historical context of Purcell''s music, dealing fully with the institutions he worked for, the origin and development of the various genres to which he contributed, and the sources of his music. In the process, a new picture of Purcell''s creative personality emerges: a composer obsessed with formal counterpoint, extraordinarily well-versed in English music of the previous century, yet eager to embrace up-to-date features of the Italian style in the 1680s.

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