The Harmony of Symbols and Styles in Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”

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Alina V. Tkachuk

Abstract

This article describes the problem of musical-stylistic specificity of Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”. On the examples of allegorical masques from the IInd and the IVth acts the author shows not only the coexistence of French, Italian and English musical manners, but their harmonious interaction. The key parameters which mark this or that manner are the genre models, intonational types and the timbral solutions. This article also touches upon the question of function of masques in a new grand “remake” of this play.

Keywords: halfopera, allegory, symbol, Purcell, mask, Baroque

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How to Cite
Tkachuk, A. V. (2010). The Harmony of Symbols and Styles in Henry Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen”. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 176–180. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/580
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Artistic World of Musical Piece
Author Biography

Alina V. Tkachuk, Novosibirsk State Conservatory (Academy) named after M. I. Glinka

Alina V. Tkachuk is graduate student at the department of Music History

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