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Article: Late-Seventeenth-Century English Keyboard Music.(Review)
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- December 1, 1998
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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS.Mus.Sch. D.219; Oxford, Christ Church, Mus. MS. 1177. Edited by Candace Bailey. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 81.) Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, c1997. [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xv; 3 plates; score, 92 p.; crit. report, p. 93-104. ISBN 0-89579- 382-2. $38.40.]
Presenting two manuscripts in diplomatic transcriptions, Candace Bailey's sampling of English harpsichord music from Henry Purcell's England in Late-Seventeenth-Century English Keyboard Music is broad in terms of chronology, style, and quality. The first source (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS.Mus. Sch. D.219) contains twenty-five pieces, almost ...