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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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"Occasionally, a book comes along that is both a pleasure to read and jam-packed with enlightening thoughts, facts, and discourses. Such a book is Michael Burden's collection of 15 essays,
erforming the Music of Henry Purcell. Every chapter is solidly researched and extraordinarily well written."--Early Music Newsletter
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.
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"Occasionally, a book comes along that is both a pleasure to read and jam-packed with enlightening thoughts, facts, and discourses. Such a book is Michael Burden's collection of 15 essays,
erforming the Music of Henry Purcell. Every chapter is solidly researched and extraordinarily well written."--Early Music Newsletter
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0198164424
- ISBN 13 9780198164425
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
- EditorBurden Michael
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