Reading List for John Blow

M. Adams, ‘Purcell, Blow and the English Court Ode’, in C. Price ed., Purcell Studies (Cambridge, 1995), 172–91

M. Burden, ‘Purcell’s and his Contemporaries’ in M. Burden ed., The Purcell Companion (London, 1995), 52–98

C. Burney, A General History of Music (London, 1776–89; ed. F. Mercer, London, 1935)

J. Caldwell, A History of English Music, volume 1: From the Beginnings to c. 1700 (Oxford, 1991)

H.L. Clark, ‘John Blow: a Tercentenary Survey’, MQ, 35 (1949), 412–20

C. Dearnley, English Church Music, 1650–1750 (London, 1970), esp. 212ff

E.J. Dent, Foundations of English Opera (London, 1928; 2/1965), 96, 149 & 172ff

D.R. Evans, ‘Blow’s Court Odes: a New Discovery’, MT, 125 (1984), 567–9

E. Fellowes, ‘The Restoration Period: I’ in English Cathedral Music, rev. J. A. Westrup (London, 1973), 129–50, esp. 142–50

P. Holman, Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540–1690 (Oxford, 1993; 2/1995)

P. Holman, Henry Purcell (Oxford, 1994)

A. Howard, ‘The Sources of John Blow’s Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (1696)’, MT, 153 (Spring 2012), 61–86

A. Lewis, ‘Purcell and Blow’s Venus and Adonis’, ML, 44 (1963), 266–9

K. Long, The Music of the English Church (London, 1972, repr. 1991), 258–68

R. Luckett, ‘A New Source for Venus and Adonis’, MT, 130 (1989), 76–9

R. McGuinness, ‘The Ground-Bass in the English Court Ode’, ML, 51 (1970), 118–40

R. McGuinness, English Court Odes 1660–1820 (Oxford, 1971)

H. McLean, ‘Blow and Purcell in Japan’, MT, 104 (1963), 702–5 – and correspondence in response from W. Shaw, MT, 104 (1963), 875

L.M. Ruff, ‘Dr Blow’s “Rules for Composition”’, MT, 104 (1963), 184–5

R. Shay & R. Thompson, Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources (Cambridge, 2000)

H.W. Shaw, ‘The Secular Music of John Blow’, PRMA, 63 (1936), 1–19

H.W. Shaw, ‘John Blow, Doctor of Music’, MT, 78 (1937), 865–7, 946–9 & 1025–8

H.W. Shaw, ‘Blow’s Use of Ground Bass’, MQ, 24 (1938), 31–8

H.W. Shaw, ‘John Blow’s Anthems’, ML, 19 (1938), 429–42

H.W. Shaw, ‘Tradition and Convention in John Blow’s Harmony’, ML, 30 (1949), 136–45

W. Shaw, ‘John Blow’, MT, 99 (1958), 542–4

W. Shaw, ‘The Autographs of John Blow’, Music Review, 25 (1964), 85–95

W. Shaw, The Succession of Organists (Oxford, 1991)

W. Shaw, ‘John Blow’s Latin Sacred Music’, Church Music Society Eighty-Sixth Report (1991–2), 14–19

Watkins Shaw, ‘John Blow’s “Arise, Great Monarch, and Ascend the Throne”’, in The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives, ed. J. Newsom & A. Mann (Washington, 2000), 126–33

I. Spink, English Song: Dowland to Purcell (London, 1974)

I. Spink ed., The Blackwell History of Music in Britain: The Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1992)

I. Spink, Restoration Cathedral Music: 1660–1714 (Oxford, 1995)

H.D. Statham, ‘Dr Blow’s Church Music and its Deformities’, MT, 47 (1926), 988–90 & 1083–5

W.G. Whittaker, ‘Some Observations on Purcell’s Harmony’, MT, 75 (1934), 887–94

B. Wood, ‘“Only Purcell e’re shall equal Blow”’, in C. Price ed., Purcell Studies (Cambridge, 1995), 106–44

B. Wood ed., John Blow: Venus and Adonis, Purcell Society Edition Companion Series, ii (London, 2008)

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