Henry Purcell, 1659-1695 ; essays on his music.
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London, New York :
Oxford University Press,
[1959]
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Table of Contents:
- Homage to the British Orpheus, by P. Pears
- On realizing the continuo in Purcell's songs by B. Britten
- New light on Dido and Aeneas, by E. W. White
- Purcell's librettist, Nahum Tate, by I. Holst
- 0ur sense of continuity in English drama and music, by M. Tippett
- Purcell and the Chapel Royal, by J. Nobel
- An organist's view of the organ works, by R. Downes
- Performing Purcell's music today, by R. Donington
- Purcell's handwriting, by F. B. Zimmerman
- Purcell's autographs, by N. Fortune and F. B. Zimmerman
- Further seventeenth- and eighteenth-century evidence bearing on the performance of Purcell's works, by R. Donington
- A note on the Nanki collection of Purcell's works, by I. Holst.