Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 486x ⇩ Score — 161x ⇩
First Violin — 56x ⇩, Second Violin — 52x ⇩, Viola — 51x ⇩, Basse Violin — 47x ⇩, First Flute — 54x ⇩, Second Flute — 56x ⇩, First Hautboy — 47x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 44x ⇩, Bassoon — 46x ⇩, First Trumpet — 46x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 40x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 47x ⇩, Bass Flute — 49x ⇩, Contralto — 49x ⇩
First Musick — 46x ⇩, Second Musick — 39x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 41x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 40x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 37x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 42x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 41x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 40x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 39x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 51x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 40x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 44x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 47x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 46x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 31x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 42x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 38x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 40x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 33x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 40x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 43x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 36x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 36x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 41x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 49x ⇩

The source is a printed edition of the score by J. Heptinstall (London1691), Nanki Music Library at Digital Nanki Auditorium (J-Tn), Tokio, Japan. This edition collects 25 instrumental pieces from Dioclesian.

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Sample — 514x ⇩ Score — 109x ⇩
Violino I — 54x ⇩, Violino II — 53x ⇩, Viola — 54x ⇩, Basso — 45x ⇩
Ouverture — 54x ⇩

Source is an eighteenth-century volume containing one of the earliest surviving manuscripts of “Dido and Aeneas”, comprising a manuscript full score, in a scribal hand, entitled “Dido and Aeneas, a Masque, by Henry Purcell, 1677. Aetatis 19, from a corrected copy in the hands of Saml Howard Mus: D”, Ms M3 .P9 v.3, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries.

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