A Purcell Anthology

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-19-353351-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

An anthology of Purcell's most popular anthems, covering the whole range of full, verse, and symphony anthems. The collection consists of specially prepared performing editions, with fully realized organ parts and easily playable score reductions of the anthems with strings.
String parts for O sing unto the Lord and Rejoice in the Lord Alway are available on hire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purcell, Henry

Wood, Bruce

Weitere Mitwirkende

Purcell, Henry

Über Autor(innen)

Purcell was the outstanding musician and composer of his time in Britain. Like other seventeenth-century musicians, Purcell's career began in the church, first as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, then as organist at Westminster Abbey composing anthems. At court he enjoyed the favour of successive monarchs composing odes on special occasions, but his works for Mary II are the best known, composed when Purcell was reaching the height of his powers, just before his
premature death.