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 pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes

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