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The true Purcell touch is on them all, but no sooner has one entered fairly into the spirit of a passage than it is finished. Instrumental interludes if, indeed, they can be called interludes, for they are as important as the vocal sections abound, and might almost be curtain-tunes from the plays. Nothing can be done to make these anthems of any use in church.
Thus Dryden talks of Purcell setting "my three songs," and there are only half a dozen "curtain-tunes," i.e. entr'actes. Many of the harpsichord pieces are of tiny proportions. The sonatas of three and four parts are no larger than Mozart's piano sonatas.
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