It thus came to pass that in Purcell's voluminous biography much that was obviously never intended for the public eye was, perhaps inadvertently, printed, together with a good deal of ungenerous comment. The facts disclosed which mainly attracted attention were: (1) that Manning, while yet ...
A favourite device used widely by Purcell in hissecularmusic, though rarely in his anthems, was theground bass(a short melodic phrase repeated over and over again as a bass line, with varying music for the upper parts). This device can have an invigorating effect in lively pieces, while ...
Henry Purcell, English composer of the middle Baroque period, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen. Lear