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- Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
- Musical Performance and Reception
- Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Music Examples
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Analytical Terms
- Introduction
- Part I Purcell’s ‘Art of Descant’
- Part II ‘Thou dost thy former skill improve’
- Chapter 5 ‘Celestial art[ifice]’ in Hail, bright Cecilia
- Chapter 6 Artifice and Musical Modelling
- Chapter 7 Augmentation as Artifice, Artifice as Augmentation
- Chapter 8 ‘Italian sonatas in orchestral garb’
- Bibliography
- Index of Compositions
- General Index
Chapter 5 - ‘Celestial art[ifice]’ in Hail, bright Cecilia
from Part II - ‘Thou dost thy former skill improve’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2019
- Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
- Musical Performance and Reception
- Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Music Examples
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Analytical Terms
- Introduction
- Part I Purcell’s ‘Art of Descant’
- Part II ‘Thou dost thy former skill improve’
- Chapter 5 ‘Celestial art[ifice]’ in Hail, bright Cecilia
- Chapter 6 Artifice and Musical Modelling
- Chapter 7 Augmentation as Artifice, Artifice as Augmentation
- Chapter 8 ‘Italian sonatas in orchestral garb’
- Bibliography
- Index of Compositions
- General Index
Summary
Having laid out in Part I some of the ways in which Purcell’s instrumental music can be better understood through a historically sensitive approach to analysis, learning from contemporary theoretical discussions – both their contents and their omissions – I turn in Part II of this study to a broader consideration of what the same methods can reveal about some of the best known of the composer’s later works, while at the same time developing tools where necessary to explain the phenomena to be found there.
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- Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell , pp. 143 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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