Review of Heav’nly harmony: Heav’nly harmony Giovanni Battista Draghi, From harmony, from heav’nly harmony. A song for St Cecilia's Day 1687 ed. Bryan White, Purcell Society Edition Companion Series, iii (London: Stainer & Bell, 2010)

It has been more than two-and-a-half years since the first two volumes of the Purcell Society Edition Companion Series were reviewed on these pages (Early Music, xxxvii/2 (2009), pp.316–20). Those first volumes (Grabu's Albion and Albanius and Blow's Venus and Adonis), together with the third volume reviewed here, an edition of Giovanni Battista Draghi's Cecilian Ode From harmony, from heav’nly harmony, form an important trilogy of Purcell's immediate models for his ‘dramatick operas’, all-sung opera and later odes respectively.