- 512 pages
- English
- PDF
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface to the First Edition and an Explanation
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the Second, Revised Edition
- A Postscript to the First Edition
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Purcells of Westminster
- 2. Boyhood
- 3. Apprenticeship
- 4. Professional Debut
- 5. Music and Restoration Politics
- 6. Fantasia Year
- 7. Tory Composer
- 8. London's Music at the End of the Reign of Charles II
- 9. Music and Theater in London (Part 1)
- 10. Music Under James II and Mary of Modena
- 11. Music and the Glorious Revolution
- 12. Musical Life Under William and Mary
- 13. A Royal Excursion Abroad
- 14. Music and Theater in London (Part 2)
- 15. Purcell as Composer for Church, Court, Concert Hall, and Theater
- 16. The End of an Era
- APPENDIX ONE. Documents
- APPENDIX TWO. Henry Purcell's Origins: A Genealogical Puzzle
- APPENDIX THREE. Iconography: Purcell Portraiture
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index