Purcell Studies

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction: in search of Purcell's character Curtis Price
• 1. Purcell's great autographs Robert Thompson
• 2. Purcell as collector of 'ancient' music: Fitzwilliam MS 88 Robert Shay
• 3. Purcell's revisions of his own works Rebecca Herissone
• 4. New light on Purcell's keyboard music Curtis Price
• 5. Purcell and Roseingrave: a new autograph Peter Holman
• 6. 'Only Purcell e're shall equal Blow' Bruce Wood
• 7. Purcell's odes: propaganda and panegyric Ian Spink
• 8. Purcell, Blow and the English court ode Martin Adams
• 9. Continuity and tempo in Purcell's vocal works A. Margaret Laurie
• 10. Poetic metre, musical metre and the dance in Purcell's songs Katherine Rohrer
• 11. King Arthur expos'd: a lesson in anatomy Andrew Pinnock
• 12. King Arthur's journey into the eighteenth-century Ellen T. Harris
• Afterword: a portrait of Henry Purcell Janet Snowman
• Index.