Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 490x ⇩ Score — 165x ⇩
First Violin — 58x ⇩, Second Violin — 54x ⇩, Viola — 53x ⇩, Basse Violin — 49x ⇩, First Flute — 57x ⇩, Second Flute — 58x ⇩, First Hautboy — 49x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 46x ⇩, Bassoon — 48x ⇩, First Trumpet — 48x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 42x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 49x ⇩, Bass Flute — 51x ⇩, Contralto — 51x ⇩
First Musick — 49x ⇩, Second Musick — 42x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 45x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 42x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 38x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 44x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 44x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 42x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 45x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 57x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 41x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 48x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 50x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 49x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 32x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 46x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 41x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 44x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 35x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 43x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 45x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 37x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 37x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 45x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 53x ⇩

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 — 519x ⇩ Score — 116x ⇩
Violino I — 58x ⇩, Violino II — 57x ⇩, Viola — 57x ⇩, Basso — 52x ⇩
Ouverture — 59x ⇩

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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