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PDF sheet music optimized for iPad, tablet and laptop screens. Recitative and aria from de opera ''''Dido and Aeneas'''' by Henry Purcell. Voice and Piano. Soprano or Mezzo-soprano. English. Intermediate. MCL77

A collection of exercises for Piano, composed by Henry Purcell and others.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT135473Originally published in 1654 as: A breefe introduction to the skill of musick. In three books. Book II has a separate titlepage: ''An introduction. To the playing on the bass, tenor, and treble-viols; and also on the treble-violin.''. Book III has a sepaLondon: printed by W. Pearson, for Henry Playford; and John Sprint, 1703. [18],80,91-180, [2]p., plate: ill., music, port.; 8

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First published in 1931, this book presents the text of Thomas Purcell''s opera The Fairy Queen, which was performed in this form as an acted adaptation at the New Theatre, Cambridge from 10-14 February 1931. Purcell based his opera on A Midsummer Night''s Dream and this version was altered to incorporate more dialogue from Shakespeare''s play in place of changes made by an anonymous librettist in 1692. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Purcell and Shakespeare.

Expertly arranged Vocal Score by Henry Purcell from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Baroque era.

"The Fairy Queen" was first performed in 1692, and was repeated in the following year. For the revival in 1693 Purcell added all the music of Act I., and the two songs, "Ye gentle spirits of the air" (No. 24) and "The Plaint" (No. 43). The Opera was adapted from Shakespeare''s "A Midsummer Night''s Dream," but Purcell did not set a single line of Shakespeare''s play to music. The play was considerably curtailed, many lines altered, and some Scenes rearranged; in this mutilated version it was acted, not sung. At the end of each Act some pretext is found for introducing a musical entertainment which has little or nothing to do with the play. Purcell''s music, composed towards the end of his short career, includes some of his best work, and shows strong Italian influence.

A choral worship collection for a cappella chorus with English and German text, composed by Henry Purcell.

A Violin solo for 2 Violins with Piano Accompaniment composed by Henry Purcell.

La presente edizione ripropone alcune delle pagine con tromba/e più belle dal King Arthur (Londra, 1691) di Henry Purcell. L''organico prevede 2 trombe, 2 violini, 2 viole, basso continuo. La selezione è così composta: Ouverture: organico completo; Song of Triumph: organico completo; Battle: 2 trombe, 2 violini, bc; Introduction to Second Act: 2 violini, viola, bc; Symphony: tromba, 2 violini, bc; Symphony: 2 violini, viola, bc; Trumpet Tune: organico completo; Chorus: organico completo Solo nell''Ouverture vi sono 2 parti separate di Viola. Negli altri brani della Suite si può utilizzare una sola Viola. Edizione a cura di Jonathan Pia, corredata di Partitura e Parti.

While understanding the concept of all-sung opera, seventeenth-century English impresarios and their audiences also understood opera to mean spoken plays with a large amount of added music. The works have been given a variety of descriptive titles including `semi-operas'', `ambigues'', `multi-media spectaculars'', and, most appropriately, `dramatick operas''. As well as four big dramatick operas, Henry Purcell also wrote a small all-sung masque, Dido and Aeneas, which is one of the few works of the century which fulfils a modern ideal of `opera''. The music of Purcell''s operas has long been studied in detail, but it is only in recent years--and not by all scholars--that the operas have been taken seriously as dramatic entities. Consideration of the pieces have been hampered by the lack of availability of the texts of the operas, for while the music has long been edited and played, the sections of spoken dialogue have been almost entirely ignored. This volume, the first complete collection of the texts, redresses the balance. It presents to the reader the complete entertainment as prepared by the author on each occasion. Included are editions of both the 1689 libretto of Dido and Aeneas and its later incarnation as a series of masques in Shakespeare''s Measure for Measure, together with the playtext, the original published texts of Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen, and a transcription of the manuscript of The Indian Queen. An appendix to the volumeshows the song texts as actually set by Purcell.

A collection of vocal solos composed by Henry Purcell.

Henry Purcell''s masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas, is considered the high point of English opera. "When I Am Laid in Earth" is a poignant, lovely aria sung by the lovelorn, dying Queen Dido as her hero Aeneas sails away. Beautifully arranged by Sylvia Rabinof for two pianos, eight hands, the delicate simplicity sings forth with subtle strength.