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About Purcell Fantazias

"The Purcell Fantazias (that’s how he spelled it!) share some interesting features with Bach’s Art of the Fugue: both are sets of music written by a brilliant composer in a form that had gone out.

Moveable Type vs. Engraving

MOVEABLE TYPE The process of printing music with moveable type was similar to printing text: individual blocks of type were lined up in a row, locked together, placed in a printing press, inked and pressed.