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The Purcell Society, founded in 1876 (principally by William Hayman Cummings) is an organization dedicated to making the complete musical works of
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest En ...
available. Between 1876 and 1965, scores of all the known works of Purcell were published, in 32 volumes. Advances in musical scholarship and editorial techniques in the decades after the first volumes were issued meant that by the second half of the 20th century they were no longer meeting the needs of users. Beginning in the 1960s, the Purcell Society began to issue revised versions of the scores. The website gives details of the scores in the revised series that are currently available.
Holding libraries
All volumes of the complete work of Henry Purcell published by the Purcell Society are available in th Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin and the
British Library
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in London.
The FAL library at the
University of New Mexico
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has in its possession most of the volumes, with some added revised editions. The FAL is missing vols. 1, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18, 21, 23.
See also
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List of compositions by Henry Purcell
This is a list of musical compositions by Henry Purcell.
By Z number
Pieces listed according to the Zimmerman catalogue.
Anthems 1–65/h2>
*Z 1, Verse Anthem, "Awake, put on thy strength" (c. 1682–85)
*Z 2, Verse Anthem, "Behold, I bring ...
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Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright
Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright (10 April 1864 – 16 August 1944) was a British musicologist.
Educated at Oxford, Arkwright was the editor of "The Old English Edition", containing masques, ballets, motets, madrigals, etc., by English compos ...