The article deals with the origins of the much discussed travelling motive, made popular by B. xiv), where better for it to appear than in this new series released by the Purcell Society? Read more Given the historical importance of Albion and Albanius-it is the first all-sung, full-length English opera for which the music survives-it seems remarkable that the piece has previously only been accessible in its original printed form, which dates from 168Z The release of a modern edition of the opera has therefore dearly been long overdue and, given the fact that the ‘opera and the exigencies of its performance were an important influence on Purcell's music for, and the productions of, his series of dramatic operas’ (p. The series is intended to include works by composers whose compositions had demonstrable influence on the music of Henry Purcell and so it will also initially include new editions of Venus and Adonis by John Blow and Giovanni Battista Draghi's From Harmony (A Song. This edition of Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius is the first volume to be included in the Purcell Society's new Companion Series.

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