EBOOK PURCELL ***
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PURCELL
BY JOHN F. RUNCIMAN
Bell's Miniature Series of Musicians
LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1909
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
LIST OF WORKS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
HENRY PURCELL
_(From the portrait by Kneller, in the possession of
Henry Littleton, Esq.)_
PURCELL
_(From a portrait by Clostermann, in the National
Portrait Gallery.)_
PURCELL SEATED AT THE HARPSICHORD
_(From a portrait by Clostermann, in the National
Portrait Gallery.)_
PURCELL
_(From an engraving after a portrait by Clostermann
in the possession of the Royal Society of Musicians.)_
PART OF THE AUTOGRAPH SCORE OF
PURCELL'S ANTHEM "BEHOLD, NOW PRAISE THE LORD"
_(In the British Museum.)_
CHAPTER I
We once had a glorious school of composers. It departed, with no sunset
splendour on it, nor even the comfortable ripe tints of autumn. The sun
of the young morning shone on its close; the dews of dawn gleam for ever
on the last music; the freshness and purity of the air of early morning
linger about it.
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