Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 528x ⇩ Score — 200x ⇩
First Violin — 98x ⇩, Second Violin — 88x ⇩, Viola — 89x ⇩, Basse Violin — 84x ⇩, First Flute — 91x ⇩, Second Flute — 91x ⇩, First Hautboy — 81x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 79x ⇩, Bassoon — 79x ⇩, First Trumpet — 82x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 76x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 81x ⇩, Bass Flute — 83x ⇩, Contralto — 85x ⇩
First Musick — 76x ⇩, Second Musick — 68x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 70x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 62x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 58x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 70x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 74x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 66x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 72x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 86x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 58x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 76x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 77x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 73x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 50x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 73x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 68x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 69x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 53x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 66x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 71x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 55x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 55x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 73x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 82x ⇩

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 — 553x ⇩ Score — 152x ⇩
Violino I — 93x ⇩, Violino II — 88x ⇩, Viola — 97x ⇩, Basso — 88x ⇩
Ouverture — 89x ⇩

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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