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

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

Near-complete collection of great English composer's keyboard compositions, including the 8 suites, airs, trumpet tunes (for harpsichord solo), grounds, prelude

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

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in