Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell

Informationen zum Autor Alan Howard is a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he is Lecturer and Director of Studies in Music. His edition of Odes on the Death of Henry Purcell (2013) was published for the Purcell Society, and he has published widely on English music in journals including JRMA, Music and Letters, Early Music, Musical Times and Eighteenth-Century Music. He is also co-editor of the journal Early Music, a member of the Purcell Society committee, a General Editor of the Works of John Eccles and a trustee of Cambridge Early Music. Klappentext The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Purcell's 'Art of Descant': 1. In counterpoint: sources and analysis; 2. Artifice, Fugeing and fantazia; 3. 'The chiefest instrumental musick now in request': canzonas and other sonata fugues; 4. 'The power of the Italian notes': Purcell's sonatas as and in reception; Part II. 'Thou Didst Thy Former Skill Improve': 5. 'Celestial art[ifice]' in Hail, bright Cecilia; 6. Artifice and musical modelling; 7. Augmentation as artifice, artifice as augmentation; 8. 'Italian sonatas in orchestral garb'.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Howard, Alan (Dr Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107006669
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00666-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Musical Performance and Recept; Musical Performance and Reception; Musical Performance and Recept
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, Theory of music & musicology, baroque, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)