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The Keyboard Suites of Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell

This work largely concerns the roles of Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell in the history of English keyboard music as reflected in their keyboard suites. Both, as composers of the Restoration period, integrated the French style with the more traditional English techniques--especially, in the case of Purcell, the virginalist heritage-- in their keyboard music. Through a detailed examination of their suites, I reveal differences in their individual styles and set forth unique characteristics of each composer. Both composers used the then traditional almain-corant-saraband pattern as the basis of the suite, to which they added a variety of English country dances. At the same time they modified the traditional dances with a variety of French and Italian idioms, thereby making distinctive individual contributions to the genre.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501040
Date08 1900
CreatorsKim, Hae-Jeong
ContributorsAdkins, Cecil, Bush, Deanna D., Brothers, Lester Dwayne, 1945-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatviii, 79 leaves: music, Text
RightsPublic, Kim, Hae-Jeong, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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