Performing The Music of Henry Purcell
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Details
- Product Type
- Book (Hardcover)
- Editor
- Michael Burden
- Product number
- 769557
- Languages
- english
- Release Year
- 1996
- Extent
- 320 Pages
Description
As Nicholas Kenyon says, quoting Ralph Vaughan Williams in the introduction to this volume, 'We all pay lip service to Henry Purcell, but what do we really know of him?'. Many aspects of the composer's life remain obscure, but, with the approach of the tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death in 1995, much of his music would be performed again, in some cases for the first time for many years. It was clear that many issues of performance practice needed to be aired before 1995; further it was equall...
