Performing the Music of Henry Purcell
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 18 April 1996
- ISBN 9780198164425
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 241x162x24 mm
- Weight 695 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp plates, line figures, tables, music examples 0
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Short description:
This book is the first volume to be devoted to performing Henry Purcell's music. It deals with issues of performance practice relating both to playing the music and staging the operas. The wide range of contributors are performers and scholars (and sometimes both) and the research contained in it is the fruits of their practical and scholarly experience.
MoreLong description:
As Nicholas Kenyon says, quoting Ralph Vaughan Williams in the introduction to this volume, 'We all pay lip service to Henry Purcell, but what do we really know of him?'. Many aspects of the composer's life remain obscure, but, with the approach of the tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death in 1995, much of his music would be performed again, in some cases for the first time for many years. It was clear that many issues of performance practice needed to be aired before 1995; further it was equally clear that such discussion should begin early and should be available in published form. To this end, a group of scholars and performers gathered at Exeter College, Oxford in 1993 and the contents of this volume represents some of the fruits of their deliberation.
The first part of the book considers purely musical issues, and covers a wide range of topics. Peter Holman looks at the importance of the Oxford set parts for Restoration Concerted Music in the overall picture of orchestral practice in the seventeenth century. This is followed by two organological essays, one on organs (Dominic Gwynne) and the other on violins (John Dilworth). The remainder of this first section has three studies of historical performance - on Percell's "Exotic" trumpet notes (Peter Downey), on Queen Mary's Funeral Music (Bruce Wood), and ornamenting Purcell's keyboard music (H Diack Johnson) - and two concerning singers and singing - Purcell's stage singers (Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson) and on voice ranges, voice types and pitch (Timothy Morris).
The second part of the book, devoted to the stage works, opens with an examination of past performances of the dramatic operas in Michael Burden's essay, 'Percell debauch'd'. Contributors then examine the importance of allegory in performing stage works (Andrew Walkling), theatrical dance (Richard Semmens), costume and etiquette (Ruth Eva Ronen), stage music (Roger Savage), and aspects of performing Dioclesian (Julia and Frans Muller) and King Arthur (Lionel Sawkins).
the papers are a valuable record, particularly now that they have been worked up ... the book worthily commemorates the Purcell tercentenary ... Michael Burden is to be congratulated not only on organizing the conference but also for recruiting such a distinguished group of scholars and seeing their work through the press on top of everything else he has recently done.
Table of Contents:
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 works
Staging 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
