American Choral Review Archive
Volume 26, No. 4 (Special Issue)
Articles
The Odes of Henry Purcell
by Lewis W. Gordon
ABSTRACT:
The musical ode of the Baroque era arose through a...
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ABSTRACT:
The musical ode of the Baroque era arose through a growing demand for celebration and pageantry which the literary ode could not fully satisfy. Yet the musical settings were necessarily dominated by the content and form of their texts, and a knowledge of the development of the literary form is essential to a fuller understanding of its musical counterpart.
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