Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 505x ⇩ Score — 175x ⇩
First Violin — 72x ⇩, Second Violin — 63x ⇩, Viola — 65x ⇩, Basse Violin — 59x ⇩, First Flute — 65x ⇩, Second Flute — 65x ⇩, First Hautboy — 57x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 54x ⇩, Bassoon — 55x ⇩, First Trumpet — 58x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 52x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 57x ⇩, Bass Flute — 59x ⇩, Contralto — 61x ⇩
First Musick — 59x ⇩, Second Musick — 51x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 55x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 47x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 43x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 56x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 56x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 50x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 56x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 69x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 46x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 58x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 60x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 57x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 37x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 57x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 50x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 53x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 40x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 50x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 56x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 43x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 42x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 56x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 66x ⇩

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 — 528x ⇩ Score — 124x ⇩
Violino I — 66x ⇩, Violino II — 64x ⇩, Viola — 65x ⇩, Basso — 59x ⇩
Ouverture — 70x ⇩

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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