About the Influence of Italian and French Music on Henry Purcell’s Style
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style, presenting an organic mixture of the early English and new
continental European national traditions that emerged towards the
second half of the 17th century in Italy and France. The reasons
are examined that stipulated Purcell’s interest in the music of
his great contemporaries, Giovanni Batista Vitali, Giacomo
Carissimi, Arcangello Corelli, Alessandro Stradella, Jean-Battiste
Lulli and others. The most significant examples of Purcell’s
compositions of various diverse genres of church and secular
music – anthems, operas and semi-operas, trio-sonatas and solo
songs, demonstrating the skillful implementation of compositional
techniques, rhetorical devices and arioso intonations from Italian
opera, which were new for England at that time. The author
stresses that Henry Purcell is a key figure of English Baroque
music, a composer in whose music there emerged a new national
English vocal-melodic style.
Keywords: the style of Henry Purcell, opera, anthem, violin
sonata, arias and solo songs, English music from the 17th century
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