Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 516x ⇩ Score — 188x ⇩
First Violin — 88x ⇩, Second Violin — 77x ⇩, Viola — 79x ⇩, Basse Violin — 74x ⇩, First Flute — 79x ⇩, Second Flute — 80x ⇩, First Hautboy — 71x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 69x ⇩, Bassoon — 69x ⇩, First Trumpet — 72x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 66x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 71x ⇩, Bass Flute — 73x ⇩, Contralto — 75x ⇩
First Musick — 67x ⇩, Second Musick — 59x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 63x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 54x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 52x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 63x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 66x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 58x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 64x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 78x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 52x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 67x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 69x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 66x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 44x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 64x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 59x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 62x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 47x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 58x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 64x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 49x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 48x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 64x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 74x ⇩

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 — 543x ⇩ Score — 137x ⇩
Violino I — 81x ⇩, Violino II — 77x ⇩, Viola — 82x ⇩, Basso — 72x ⇩
Ouverture — 78x ⇩

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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