Performing the Music of Henry Purcell

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ISBN: 9780198164425 | 0198164424
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/25/1996

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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.

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Introduction
Performing the Music
Original sets of parts for Restoration Concerted Music at Oxford
The English organ in Purcell's lifetime
Violin making in England in the age of Purcell
Performing Mr Purcell's "Exotick" trumpet notes
The first performance of Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Ornamentation in the keyboard music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries
Purcell's stage singers
Voice ranges, voice types and pitch in Purcell's concerted worksStaging the Operas
Purcell debauch'd; the dramatick operas in performance
Performance and political allegory: what to interpret and when on the Restoration stage
Dancing and dance music in Purcell's operas
Of Costume and Etiquette: staging in the time of Purcell
Calling up Genius: Purcell, Roger North and Charlotte Butler
Purcell's Dioclesian on the Dorset Garden stage
Trembleurs and Cold People: how should they shiver?
Appendices
Original sets of parts of Restoration Concerted Music at Oxford: a preliminary catalogue
English viol and violin makers working in London in the period 1650-1700
Purcell's stage singers: a documentary list
Forces and vocal ranges in Purcell's concerted works
Dances and Purcell's operas 1689-1692 for which music is known
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Performing the Music of Henry Purcell

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