| Henry Purcell: The Origins and Development of His Musical Style Digitally Print Edition Contributor(s): Adams, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521106915 ISBN-13: 9780521106917 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera |
| Dewey: 780.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 404 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first book thoroughly to explore the musical style of Henry Purcell. In this comprehensive study, Martin Adams identifies music by other composers, both within England and from abroad, which influenced Purcell's compositional decisions. Using a mix of broad stylistic observation and detailed analysis, Adams distinguishes between late seventeenth-century English style in general and Purcell's style in particular and chronicles the changes in the composer's approach to the main genres in which he worked, especially the newly emerging ode and English opera. As a result, Adams reveals that although Purcell went through a marked stylistic development, encompassing an unusually wide range of surface changes, special elements of his style remained constant. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of music and theatre history and of British cultural and social history. |