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The attempt to write a Life of Henry Purcell has been beset with many difficulties. So much information which might have been preserved for the instruction of after times has been lost, either through the indifference or culpable neglect of those who had it in their power to h...
The earliest existing printed copies of these tunes are dated 1686, but he reprinted the "Quickstep" in 1689, under the title of "A new Irish tune," in a work called _Musick's H...
6. Part 6By his bed-side were gathered his aged mother, his young wife, and his three infant children; and so amid their sighs and tears his gentle spirit passed into the better world, t...
3. Part 3"Charles the Second had given orders for building a yacht, which as soon as it was finished he named the _Fubbs_, in honour of the Duchess of Portsmouth, who, we may suppose, wa...
5. Part 5In 1691 Purcell composed the music for _Distressed Innocence_, a tragedy by Elkanah Settle, and also for the comedies called the _Gordian Knot Untyed_, by an anonymous author, a...
7. Part 7At the present day music has become such an extensively developed science, particularly as regards orchestration, that it is difficult to apprehend the state of things which exi...
1. Part 1The attempt to write a Life of Henry Purcell has been beset with many difficulties. So much information which might have been preserved for the instruction of after times has be...
2. Part 2Tho. Mr. Purcell } 200 0 0 Pelham Mr. Humphreys } Joᴺ. Mr. Hardinge 40 0 0 Wᵐ. Mr. Howes 46 10 10 Tho. Mr. Blagrave, Seigʳ. 40 9 2 Alphonso Mr. March 40 0 0 Joᴺ. Mr. Goodgroome...
8. Part 8"Several persons of quality, having for the encouragement of musick advanced 200 guineas, to be distributed in 4 prizes, the first of 100, the second of 50, the third of 30, and...
9. Part 91691. He composed music for (1) "Distressed innocence;" (2) "King Arthur;" (3) "The Gordian knot untyed;" (4) "Sir Anthony Love;" also an Ode, "Welcome, glorious morn," for the...