TY - JOUR
T1 - Composition as an act of performance: Artifice and expression in Purcell's sacred Partsong Since God so tender a regard
AU - Howard, Alan
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Since God so tender a regard is one of a small number of 'domestic sacred' pieces Purcell entered into his manuscript scorebook, London, British Library, Add. MS 30930. Its particular interest lies in its construction over a ground bass, and the range of artificial devices Purcell employs in its setting. Its background in seventeenth-century psalm settings, and its likely performance circumstances, allowed Purcell to turn these features to rhetorical advantage, with highly imaginative and individual results. © The Author 2007.
AB - Since God so tender a regard is one of a small number of 'domestic sacred' pieces Purcell entered into his manuscript scorebook, London, British Library, Add. MS 30930. Its particular interest lies in its construction over a ground bass, and the range of artificial devices Purcell employs in its setting. Its background in seventeenth-century psalm settings, and its likely performance circumstances, allowed Purcell to turn these features to rhetorical advantage, with highly imaginative and individual results. © The Author 2007.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/57749166754
U2 - 10.1093/jrma/fkl012
DO - 10.1093/jrma/fkl012
M3 - Article
SN - 0269-0403
VL - 132
SP - 32
EP - 59
JO - Journal of the Royal Musical Association
JF - Journal of the Royal Musical Association
IS - 1
ER -