TIGER OF THE STRIPE
Books on Music
If music be the food of love, play on... Here you will find the following Tiger of the Stripe books: Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith by William Coxe; Victor Schoelcher’s Life of Handel; Purcell by William H. Cummings.
Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel
and John Christopher Smith
William Coxe
The Reverend William Coxe was the stepson of Handel’s amanuensis, John Christopher Smith. As such, he had unique access to information on Smith’s life and, to a lesser extent, Handel’s.
This book, reset from the original edition of 1799, corrected and annotated, consists of separate memoirs of the two composers.
Published 2009 108pp Pbk List Price £11.00 ISBN 978-1-904799-39-9
Purcell
William H. Cummings
William Cummings’s highly regarded biography of Henry Purcell has been revised and reset to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Henry Purcell, one of the greatest English composers of all time. Few other composers can boast the originality or the range which Purcell displayed – from sacred music, to airs, to tavern songs and the first great English opera, Dido and Aeneas. As well as following Purcell's life and career, the book provides appendices on Purcel’s family, the organists, choirmasters and copyists of Westminster Abbey, and a list of important dates in the composer’s life.
William H. Cummings was Principal of the Guildhall School of Music, London, and a noted music historian.
Published 2009 160pp Pbk List Price £8.00 ISBN 978-1-904799-44-3
