Purcell, Henry

HENRY PURCELLPURCELL, HENRYHENRY PURCELL [* 1659-† 1695] Henry Purcell edited the twelfth edition (1694) of PLAYFORD's Introduction to the Skill of Music and inserted his own rules of descant for those of Thomas CAMPION. Purcell rejected CAMPION's method of composing from the bass and advised readers to compose from the treble. He also introduced and illustrated the procedures of imitation, double counterpoint, inversion, augmentation, diminution, retrograde, and canon. Various harmonic…