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Music for a While - Pearson qualifications
Note: These set works guides are Pearson s interpretation of the set works and every effort has been made to ensure these are appropriate for use in the classroom. There may be other interpretations which are also valid and any such differences would not be considered errors, or require any updates to the guides. H Purcell: Music for a While (For component 3: Appraising) Background information and performance circumstances Henry Purcell (1659 95) was an English Baroque composer and is widely regarded as being one of the most influential English composers throughout the history of Music . A pupil of John Blow, Purcell succeeded his teacher as organist at Westminster Abbey from 1679, becoming organist at the Chapel Royal in 1682 and holding both posts simultaneously.
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and The Tempest (1695). ‘Music for a While’ is the second of four movements written as incidental music for John Dryden’s play based on the story of Sophocles’ Oedipus. Dryden was also the author of the libretto for King Arthur and The Indian Queen and he and Purcell made a strong
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