The Sonatas of Henry Purcell - Rhetoric and Reversal

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.

List of contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Note on the Musical Examples
Introduction
The Examined Repertoire: Purcell's Trio Sonatas
Harmony and Counterpoint in the Service of Rhetoric
Indiscernable Structures
Proportional Symmetry and Asymmetry
Mirror Symmetry and its Implications
Double Fugue, Treble Fugue, and Commutatio
Ground Bass
Bibliography

About the author

Alon Schab

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alon Schab
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781580469203
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-920-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 254 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 566 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries