{"product_id":"the-sonatas-of-henry-purcell-9781580469203","title":"The Sonatas of Henry Purcell","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePurcell's trio sonatas are among the cornerstones of Baroque chamber music. The composer himself unassumingly described them as \"a just imitation of the most famed Italian masters.\" However, analysis of their underlying structuresreveals that Purcell's modesty hides a highly original blend of Italian models, complex English traditional compositional devices, and his own near obsession with compositional and contrapuntal technique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Alon Schab'spathbreaking \u003ci\u003eSonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal\u003c\/i\u003e begins with an overview of the two sets of sonatas and their sources, their movement types, and some of the basic compositional and rhetorical procedures they demonstrate. The book's main part highlights several covert structures that are not necessarily heard but are consistent and played an important part in the compositional process. Symmetry, both temporal and spatial, governs much ofthese underlying structures. Beneath the surface of his studies in Italian style, Purcell created intricate correspondences between the micro and macro levels of the works, as well as unities of proportions and, above all, impressive mirrorlike structures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Schab's book opens an important window to seventeenth-century compositional technique and offers further evidence of Purcell's use of advanced compositional techniques in works that aimed to be pleasurable for the amateur and excitingly thought-provoking for the professional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Alon Schab is a lecturer at the University of Haifa.","brand":"Alon Schab","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280799412475,"sku":"9781580469203","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781580469203.jpg?v=1772485067","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-sonatas-of-henry-purcell-9781580469203","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}