Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 509x ⇩ Score — 181x ⇩
First Violin — 78x ⇩, Second Violin — 69x ⇩, Viola — 71x ⇩, Basse Violin — 66x ⇩, First Flute — 71x ⇩, Second Flute — 71x ⇩, First Hautboy — 63x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 61x ⇩, Bassoon — 61x ⇩, First Trumpet — 64x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 58x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 63x ⇩, Bass Flute — 64x ⇩, Contralto — 67x ⇩
First Musick — 63x ⇩, Second Musick — 54x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 58x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 50x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 46x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 59x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 61x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 54x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 60x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 72x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 49x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 62x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 63x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 61x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 40x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 60x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 54x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 58x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 43x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 54x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 59x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 46x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 45x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 59x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 69x ⇩

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 — 534x ⇩ Score — 130x ⇩
Violino I — 72x ⇩, Violino II — 70x ⇩, Viola — 71x ⇩, Basso — 65x ⇩
Ouverture — 74x ⇩

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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