Purcell's Three Parts upon a Ground
In the May 2001 issue of Early Music (pp. 250-61), Peter Holman's article 'Compositional choices in Henry Purcell's Three Parts upon a Ground' discusses the idioms and structure of this unusual and striking work. You can see a score of it, edited by Clifford Bartlett and reproduced by kind permission of King's Music, by clicking here (PDF 373 kb).
You can also listen to the following recordings of Purcell's Three Parts upon a Ground in D major (Z 731) here:
Sound Clip 1, The Purcell Quartet with Risa Browder violin, (CHAN 8663), Copyright 1989 Chandos Records Ltd
Sound Clip 2, John Holloway, Alison Bury, Elizabeth Wallfisch violins, Jakob Lindberg archlute, Andrew Parrott organ, Published 1988 EMI Records Ltd/Virgin Classics
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