Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell
- Author: Howard, Alan
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$128.75Contents
- 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'.