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This book looks at the work of one of England's finest composers, William Lawes. It provides a contextual examination of music at the court of Charles I, a deta

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