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Orpheus Britannicus is a collection of songs by Henry Purcell, published posthumously in London in two volumes, the first in 1698 and the second in 1702.
Nov 21, 2020 · The posthumously published collection of Purcell's songs, Orpheus Britannicus, is particularly well represented as well, with copies of the first and second volumes of the first edition (1698 and 1702) in 19 and 21 institutions respectively - and with the second, expanded, edition of 1706 to be found in a whopping 28 institutions.
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Engraved portrait of Purcell by R. White after Closterman, from Orpheus Britannicus Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster in 1659. Henry Purcell Senior, [4] whose older brother Thomas Purcell was a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England .
- c. 10 September 1659, Westminster, London, England
- 21 November 1695 (aged 36), Marsham Street, London, England
- 6, including Edward
- Edward Henry Purcell (grandson)
Oct 28, 2018 · Orpheus Britannicus. Oct 28, 2018. ... Among today’s ethnomusicologists, the Bartók-Kodály-Grainger field-work procedure is the default one, and from the 1970s ...
Orpheus Britannicus is a collection of songs by Henry Purcell, published posthumously in London in two volumes, the first in 1698 and the second in 1702. In the preface to the first volume, Henry Playford , the printer of the volume and the son of John Playford , the famous printer and publisher of music books, extolls Purcell's skill as setter ...
Britain’s Orpheus. In 1698, three years after the death of Henry Purcell, Henry Playford published the first volume of a collection entitled Orpheus Britannicus. Its contents included some of Purcell’s finest vocal music, and in one of the dedicatory poems, Purcell is described as the ‘all-pleasing British Orpheus’, on account of his ...
The ‘British Orpheus’, i.e. Purcell. Title given to 2 posthumous vols. of Purcell's vocal mus. pubd. by H. Playford (1698–1702), also to vol. of his songs pubd. by J. Walsh (1735). Britten and Pears realized and ed. 18 of these solo songs for v. and pf. and 6 duets for high and low vv. and pf. They also made a Suite of Songs for high v ...
