Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 482x ⇩ Score — 154x ⇩
First Violin — 53x ⇩, Second Violin — 49x ⇩, Viola — 47x ⇩, Basse Violin — 44x ⇩, First Flute — 51x ⇩, Second Flute — 53x ⇩, First Hautboy — 44x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 41x ⇩, Bassoon — 43x ⇩, First Trumpet — 43x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 37x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 44x ⇩, Bass Flute — 45x ⇩, Contralto — 46x ⇩
First Musick — 43x ⇩, Second Musick — 36x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 37x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 38x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 34x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 38x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 37x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 37x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 35x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 46x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 37x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 40x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 44x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 42x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 29x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 37x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 34x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 36x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 31x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 37x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 40x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 34x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 33x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 36x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 45x ⇩

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 — 512x ⇩ Score — 104x ⇩
Violino I — 51x ⇩, Violino II — 50x ⇩, Viola — 50x ⇩, Basso — 42x ⇩
Ouverture — 49x ⇩

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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