Composers

Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)

Sample page — 460x ⇩ Score — 124x ⇩
First Violin — 29x ⇩, Second Violin — 24x ⇩, Viola — 24x ⇩, Basse Violin — 22x ⇩, First Flute — 27x ⇩, Second Flute — 27x ⇩, First Hautboy — 21x ⇩, Second Hautboy — 18x ⇩, Bassoon — 21x ⇩, First Trumpet — 18x ⇩, Second Trumpet — 15x ⇩, Tener Hautboy — 20x ⇩, Bass Flute — 21x ⇩, Contralto — 22x ⇩
First Musick — 12x ⇩, Second Musick — 6x ⇩, [Ouverture] — 8x ⇩, Act I: First Act Tune [Hornpipe] — 6x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Trumpets and Violins — 8x ⇩, Act II: Ritornello — 5x ⇩, Act II: Symphony for Flutes — 6x ⇩, Act II: Dance of Furies — 8x ⇩, Act II: Second Act Tune — 6x ⇩, Act III: Two in one upon a Ground - Chaconne for Flutes — 11x ⇩, Act III: The Chair Dance — 5x ⇩, Act III: Prelude for Hautboys — 7x ⇩, Act III: Third Act Tune — 5x ⇩, Act IV: Soft Musick before the Dance - Butterfly Dance — 10x ⇩, Act IV: Tune for Trumpets — 5x ⇩, Act IV: Forth Act Tune — 5x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Country Dance — 5x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins only — 6x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Prelude for Violins, and Hautboys — 5x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Paspe — 6x ⇩, Act V - Masque: [Dance of Bacchanals] — 7x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Retor — 6x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Canaries — 7x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance — 5x ⇩, Act V - Masque: Dance [II] — 7x ⇩

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 — 488x ⇩ Score — 78x ⇩
Violino I — 24x ⇩, Violino II — 21x ⇩, Viola — 22x ⇩, Basso — 17x ⇩
Ouverture — 13x ⇩

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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