'"(T)ranscribed from the author(‘)s original manuscript": Philip Hayes and the Preservation of the Music of Henry Purcell' and Henry Purcell, 'Oh that my Grief was throughly weigh'd'
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: B - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Music
- Output identifier
- 185713012
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A collection of critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- July
- Year
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Music
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This multi-component output documents the results of research Herissone carried out with the aim of assessing the significance of the collecting activities of Philip Hayes (1738–97) to the posthumous reception of the music of Henry Purcell, and to modern scholarship on the composer. It comprises two items:
1. A 13,800-word book chapter in which Herissone analyses evidence of Hayes’s collecting activities, demonstrating (a) that he owned and preserved a remarkably large proportion of Purcell’s surviving autographs and related Restoration sources; and (b) that his own transcriptions of this repertory – extant in four large volumes held at Tatton Park, Cheshire and two others at the Royal College of Music, London, which have hitherto been almost entirely overlooked by scholars – have more significance than has been recognised, because of their remarkable fidelity to his sources at a time when most copyists updated and amended such ‘ancient’ music. This suggests in turn that his copies of Restoration music made from unidentified sources are reliable and may be considered primary texts. One work was added to Purcell’s oeuvre on this basis by Nigel Fortune in the 1960s; Herissone’s analysis identifies another unknown piece by Purcell, a devotional song for male voices, copied and attributed to Purcell by Hayes within the Royal College volumes, which can now confidently be added to Purcell’s known output.
2. A critical edition of the newly discovered devotional song for three male voices, ‘Oh that my grief was throughly weigh’d’, using Hayes’s manuscript copy as its unique source, providing full critical apparatus (including an editorial continuo part) and commentary. While published by Stainer & Bell in 2019 as a stand-alone edition, the song will ultimately be included within the revised edition of vol. 30 of the Purcell Society Complete Edition when this is published.
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- Non-English
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