Of Purcell the man very little is known, and his personality has to be reconstructed through the age in which he lived, the circumstances of his professional li

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell's music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

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

The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of current research into Purcell and the environment of Restor