Thank you for your patience while we collect our thoughts to prepare an essay on this topic. While you wait, here is a sneak preview of reference material that will be incorporated into the coming essay: Robert King's Henry Purcell (Thames and Hudson, 1994) is a beautiful and thorough discussion of Purcell's music and life by a man who has conducted almost every choral work Purcell ever wrote. Arthur Hutchings's Purcell (BBC, 1982) is one of a wonderful series of handbooks on classical music, of interest to a more specialized audience. Serious students will be interested in Peter Le Huray's Music and the Reformation in England, 1549-1660 (Oxford, 1967) and Christopher Dearnley's English Church Music, 1650-1750 (Oxford, 1970). [Posted October 2001, ALG]		Ted Libbey, on master English composer Henry Purcell (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, ) MHT-018.2.4