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Henry Purcell : the origins and development of his musical style by MARTIN ADAMS, Martin H Adams, Adams, Martin is a music available to read on EtoBox.
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This is the first book thoroughly to explore the musical style of Henry Purcell. In this comprehensive study, Martin Adams identifies music by other composers, both within England and from abroad, which influenced Purcell's compositional decisions. Using a mix of broad stylistic observation and detailed analysis, Adams distinguishes between late seventeenth-century English style in general and Purcell's style in particular and chronicles the changes in the composer's approach to the main genres
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- Author
- MARTIN ADAMS, Martin H Adams, Adams, Martin
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521431590
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Literary Fiction, Opera
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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