Clarendon Press Books
Performing the Music of Henry Purcell
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'We all pay lip service to Henry Purcell, but what do we really know of him?', asked Ralph Vaughan Williams. As Nicholas Kenyon points out in his introduction to this volume, many of the circumstan...
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Tree Of Pearls
By D. FAIRCHILD RUGGLES, Clarendon Press, D. Fairchild Ruggles
Shajar al-Durr - known as "Tree of Pearls" - began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted,...
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