Henry Purcell, 1659-1695
Subtitle: essays on his music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
Table of contents: title: Homage to the British Orpheus / Peter Pears; title: On realizing the continuo in Purcell's songs / Benjamin Britten; title: New light on ‘Dido and Aeneas’ / Eric Walter White; title: Purcell's librettist, Nahum Tate / Imogen Holst; title: Our sense of continuity in English drama and music / Michael Tippett; title: Purcell and the Chapel Royal / Jeremy Noble; title: An organist's view of the organ works / Ralph Downes; title: Performing Purcell's music today (with a section on the dances by Imogen Holst) / Robert Donington; title: Purcell's handwriting / Franklin B. Zimmerman; title: Appendix A. Purcell's autographs / Nigel Fortune and Franklin B. Zimmerman; title: Appendix B. Further seventeenth- and eighteenth-century evidence bearing on the performance of Purcell's works / Robert Donington; title: Appendix C. A note on the Nanki collection of Purcell's works / Imogen Holst