1938/03/01 by Roy Lamson
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Historical Influence and Diplomacy #Musicology and Musical Analysis
paper · doi:10.2307/458409
openalex publication_date 1938/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Henry Playford in his note to the reader in Orpheus Britannicus felt free to say: The Author's [Purcell's] extraordinary Talent in all sorts of Musick is sufficiently known, but he was especially admir'd for the Vocal, having a peculiar Genius to express the Energy of English Words, whereby he mov'd the Passions of all his Auditors.