Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 508x ⇩ Score — 178x ⇩
First Violin — 75x ⇩, Second Violin — 66x ⇩, Viola — 69x ⇩, Basse Violin — 63x ⇩, First Flute — 68x ⇩, Second Flute — 68x ⇩, First Hautboy — 60x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 57x ⇩, Bassoon — 58x ⇩, First Trumpet — 61x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 55x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 60x ⇩, Bass Flute — 62x ⇩, Contralto — 64x ⇩
First Musick — 62x ⇩, Second Musick — 53x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 57x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 49x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 45x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 58x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 60x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 53x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 58x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 71x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 48x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 60x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 62x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 60x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 39x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 59x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 52x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 56x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 42x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 52x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 58x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 45x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 44x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 58x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 68x ⇩

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 — 531x ⇩ Score — 127x ⇩
Violino I — 69x ⇩, Violino II — 68x ⇩, Viola — 68x ⇩, Basso — 62x ⇩
Ouverture — 73x ⇩

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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