Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell

Contents

• Introduction;
• Part I . Purcell's 'Art of Descant':
• 1. In counterpoint: sources and analysis;
• 2. Artifice, Fugeing and fantazia;
• 3. 'The chiefest instrumental musick now in request': canzonas and other sonata fugues;
• 4. 'The power of the Italian notes': Purcell's sonatas as and in reception;
• Part II . 'Thou Didst Thy Former Skill Improve':
• 5. 'Celestial art[ifice]' in Hail, bright Cecilia;
• 6. Artifice and musical modelling;
• 7. Augmentation as artifice, artifice as augmentation;
• 8. 'Italian sonatas in orchestral garb'.