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- Title
Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell.
- Abstract
Recent years have seen the publication of several important monographs exemplifying historically informed analytical approaches to Henry Purcell's music, notably Rebecca Herissone's I Musical Creativity in Restoration England i (2013) and Alon Schab's I The Sonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal i (2018). Howard emphasises that Purcell's fugal subjects are conceived melodically rather than harmonically and as a result can easily change their implied harmonic context depending on how one subject is combined with another or with itself, leading the contemporaneous commentator Roger North to complain (though long after Purcell's death) that "the ayre of the genuine key is lost" (p. 122, citing Wilson 1959, p. 180). In the second part of the book, Howard shows that Purcell revisited some of his earlier material in his later large-scale vocal and orchestral music, applying and adapting the techniques he developed in his early sonatas and fantazias.
- Subjects
PURCELL, Henry, 1659-1695; VOCAL music; INSTRUMENTAL music; MUSICAL style; EARLY music; FOLK music; SONATA; MUSICOLOGY
- Publication
Music Analysis, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 2, p341
- ISSN
0262-5245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/musa.12192