Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 478x ⇩ Score — 148x ⇩
First Violin — 47x ⇩, Second Violin — 43x ⇩, Viola — 41x ⇩, Basse Violin — 38x ⇩, First Flute — 45x ⇩, Second Flute — 47x ⇩, First Hautboy — 38x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 35x ⇩, Bassoon — 37x ⇩, First Trumpet — 37x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 31x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 38x ⇩, Bass Flute — 40x ⇩, Contralto — 40x ⇩
First Musick — 40x ⇩, Second Musick — 31x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 33x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 33x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 31x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 33x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 33x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 34x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 32x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 42x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 33x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 35x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 39x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 37x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 25x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 34x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 30x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 32x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 27x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 30x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 35x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 30x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 30x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 31x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 39x ⇩

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 — 505x ⇩ Score — 99x ⇩
Violino I — 45x ⇩, Violino II — 45x ⇩, Viola — 45x ⇩, Basso — 37x ⇩
Ouverture — 46x ⇩

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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