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Purcell: Suite for Flute and Strings
DONALD PURCELL
The program will be; Mozart, Masonic music; Webbe, "Glorious Apollo;" Purcell, "Three Catches;" Schubert, "La Pastorella;" Piston, Carnival Song for men's voices and brass; Thompson, "Tarantella;" American Folk Song, "Casey Jones;" Fay, "Harvard to the Harvard Team."
Henry Purcell composed at a time when the mediaeval religious tradition of the Renaissance had disintegrated into a purely secular art. The English Restoration, especially, was accompanied by an important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The...
Purcell expressed completely this secular spirit; his comprehensive genius seized on certain formulae of taste, and forged them into a style which at once satisfied popular demand and his own individuality. Eccentric rhythms, unusual and striking harmonics, surprises in melodic line: all of these fill the pages of his scores...