Performing the Music of Henry Purcell

ISBN-13: 9780198164425 / Angielski

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Opis

This book, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Purcell's death, is the first to be devoted to the performance of his music. The contributors--all leading scholars and performers--deal with issues of performance practice relating both to playing the music and staging the operas.

Recenzje

Michael Burden is to be congratulated on drawing together a scholarly and eclectic collection and editing it into a coherent volume. The plates, all supporting essays on dramatick opera, are well chosen ... the book is generally well produced and its contents will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to academic literature for years to come. Robert Thompson, Early Music, November 1996

O autorze

He is the author of Arne, Garrick and the Masque of `Alfred' (1994); Purcell Remembered (1995); The Purcell Companion (1994), and the forthcoming Henry Purcell's Operas: the complete texts (OUP), and A Woman Scorn'd: the myth of Dido, Queen of Carthage.