SKU: ST.PE21
Composed by Henry
Purcell. Edited by
Margaret Laurie. Library
Volumes. Edited Margaret
Laurie. Vocal and
Instrumental Music for
the Stage, Part III.
First published in 2010..
Pages: 288. Format:
Hardback. Dimensions
(mm): 303 x 213 x 27.
Score. Stainer & Bell
Ltd. #PE21. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.PE21).
ISBN
9790220222733.
Purc
ell began writing for the
stage in 1680. His work
for the two London
theatre companies (which
merged in 1682, but which
in 1695 split once more
into two competing
factions) constituted an
increasingly important
aspect of his creative
activities in the late
1680s, and became
exceptionally fruitful in
the last six years of his
life, encompassing not
merely his four great
dramatic operas but also
a prodigious quantity of
music for more modest
stage pieces.
The productions for which
the music is included in
this volume are: Oedipus
(1692), Oroonoko (1695),
Pausanias (1696), Regulus
(1692), Rule a wife and
have a wife (1693), Sir
Anthony Love (1690), Sir
Barnaby Whigg (1681),
Sophonisba (?1685), The
Old Batchelour (1693),
The Richmond Heiress
(1693), The Rival Sisters
(1695), The Spanish Fryar
(1695), The Tempest
(1695), The Virtuous Wife
(1695), The Wives Excuse
(1691), Theodosius
(1680), and Tyrannick
Love (1694).
The
original Purcell Society
edition of this volume,
edited by Alan Gray and
published in 1917, has
long been out of print.
This comprehensive new
edition - the only one
available of most of the
music - is based on a
fresh examination of all
the surviving materials,
including newly
discovered manuscript
sources, carried out by
one of the greatest
living authorities on
Purcell's dramatic
music.
Royaume-Uni
Alan-Gray