Henry Purcell, 1659-1695
Subtitle: essays on his music.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Purcell, Henry, -- 1659-1695.
Table of contents: value: Pears, P.  Homage to the British Orpheus.-  Britten, B.  On realizing the continuo in Purcell's songs.-  White, E.W. New Light on 'Dido and Aeneas'.-  Holst, I. Purcell's librettist, Nahum Tate.- Tippett, M. Our sense of continuity in English drama and music.-  Noble, J. Purcell and the Chapel Royal.-  Downes, R.  An organist's view of the organ works.- Donington, R.  Performing Purcell's music today (with a section on the dances by Imogen Holst)-  Zimmerman, F.B.  Purcell's handwriting.  Appendix A: Fortune, N. and F.B. Zimmerman.  Purcell's autographs.  Appendix B: Donington, R. Further seventeenth- and eighteenth-century evidence bearing on the performance of Purcell's works.-  Appendix C: Holst, I.  A note on the Nanki collection of Purcell's works.