Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 466x ⇩ Score — 132x ⇩
First Violin — 34x ⇩, Second Violin — 29x ⇩, Viola — 29x ⇩, Basse Violin — 25x ⇩, First Flute — 32x ⇩, Second Flute — 31x ⇩, First Hautboy — 25x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 23x ⇩, Bassoon — 24x ⇩, First Trumpet — 24x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 21x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 25x ⇩, Bass Flute — 27x ⇩, Contralto — 28x ⇩
First Musick — 20x ⇩, Second Musick — 13x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 16x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 12x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 14x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 11x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 13x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 15x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 13x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 17x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 12x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 15x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 13x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 17x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 9x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 13x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 12x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 13x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 11x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 13x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 13x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 13x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 14x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 12x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 12x ⇩

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 — 493x ⇩ Score — 82x ⇩
Violino I — 29x ⇩, Violino II — 27x ⇩, Viola — 28x ⇩, Basso — 23x ⇩
Ouverture — 22x ⇩

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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