Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 514x ⇩ Score — 185x ⇩
First Violin — 83x ⇩, Second Violin — 73x ⇩, Viola — 75x ⇩, Basse Violin — 70x ⇩, First Flute — 75x ⇩, Second Flute — 75x ⇩, First Hautboy — 67x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 65x ⇩, Bassoon — 65x ⇩, First Trumpet — 68x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 62x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 67x ⇩, Bass Flute — 68x ⇩, Contralto — 71x ⇩
First Musick — 65x ⇩, Second Musick — 57x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 61x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 52x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 50x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 62x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 63x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 57x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 62x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 75x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 51x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 65x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 66x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 64x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 42x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 62x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 57x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 61x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 45x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 56x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 62x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 48x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 47x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 62x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 72x ⇩

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 — 539x ⇩ Score — 134x ⇩
Violino I — 76x ⇩, Violino II — 74x ⇩, Viola — 78x ⇩, Basso — 69x ⇩
Ouverture — 76x ⇩

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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