Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T12:20:05.405Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 6 - Artifice and Musical Modelling

from Part II - ‘Thou dost thy former skill improve’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2019

Alan Howard
Affiliation:
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Get access

Summary

At the climax of his last great choral work, the orchestral Te Deum and Jubilate in D major for the St Cecilia’s Day celebrations of 1694, Purcell dusted off a contrapuntal motif familiar from the end of his much earlier Fantazia XII (Ex. 6.1). Moreover, he also used exactly the same compositional conceit in his working of this motif – no doubt, in fact, his very choice of materials was motivated by the desire to select an idea suitable for subjection to the extreme contrapuntal augmentation of bars 201–8, an illustration of the words ‘world without end’.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Artifice and Musical Modelling
  • Alan Howard, Selwyn College, Cambridge
  • Book: Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139030458.008
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Artifice and Musical Modelling
  • Alan Howard, Selwyn College, Cambridge
  • Book: Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139030458.008
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Artifice and Musical Modelling
  • Alan Howard, Selwyn College, Cambridge
  • Book: Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139030458.008
Available formats
×