Dr. John Bull. 1562-1628

New York: Da Capo Press. Very Good/No Jacket. 1968. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardback. Dr. John Bull. 1562-1628. Red cloth with gilt lettering. A reprint of the 1937 edition. During the Elizabethab era, music in England matured and progressed at a rate unsurpassed elsewhere on the Continent. Among the handful of master musicians who spear-headed this resurgence was the brilliant organist and composer, John Bull.. Sometimes termed 'the Liszt of his age' Bull was a major figure in this revitalization of the English music tradition, which was to reach its culmination in the work of Henry Purcell. And, along with his contemporary J. P. Sweelinck - a Dutch organist-composer - Bull exerted a powerful and lasting influence upon the development of all contrapuntal keyboard music. In this book, an outstanding biography of this legendary musician, the author, another English composer, reveals a unique understanding of the life and work of his great predecessor. Seeking to illuminate the man through his music, he approaches John Bull from a warm and sympathetic viewpoint. In this Introduction to this volume, Henry comments Bull 'imbued our music for the first time with a consciousness of the folk-idion which is its strongest national trait' and goes on to aplly this belief by lauching his challenging and controversial theory of Bull's authorship of the British national anthem 'God Save the King'. Frontispiece. 304 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .