The Indian Queen - Purcell, Henry

"Op. Z.630. Duration: 2 hours :1a. First Music: First Air :1b. First Music: Second Air :2a. Second Music: First Air (Hornpipe) :2b. Second Music: Second Air (Hornpipe) :3a. Overture :3b. [Trumpet Tune] ;*Act I :Prologue :4a. Song (boy): Wake, Quivera :4b. Song (girl/Quivera): Why should men quarrel? :4c. [Recitative] (boy): By ancient prophecies :4d. [Duet] (boy & girl): If these be, they are welcome :4e. Song (boy): Their looks are such :4f. Song (girl): If so, your goodness may your pow'r express : [repeat 3b. Trumpet Tune] : [First Act Tune: repeat 3b. Trumpet Tune] ;*Act II :5. Symphony [*** - Canzona - Adagio - Allegro] :6a. Song (alto/Fame) & Chorus: I come to sing :6b. Trio (alto, tenor & bass): What flatt'ring noise is this :6c. Song (alto/Fame): Scorn'd Envy :6d. Song (bass/Envy) & Trio (alto, tenor & bass): I fly from the place :6e. Song (alto/Fame): Be gone, curst fiends of Hell :6f. [Trumpet Tune] : [repeat Chorus 6a. I come to sing] :7. Dance : [Second Act Tune: repeat 5. Symphony] ;*Act III :8. Dance :9a. [Recitative] (bass/Ismeron): Ye twice ten hundred deities :9b. Song (bass/Ismeron): By the croaking of the toad :9c. Song (bass/Ismeron): While bubbling Springs :10. Symphony :11. Song (soprano/God of Dreams): Seek not to know :12. Trumpet Overture [*** - Canzona - Slow] :13a. Duet (alto & tenor/Aerial Spirits): Ah! how happy are we :13b. Duet (alto & tenor/Aerial Spirits) & Chorus: We the spirits of the air :14. Song (soprano): I attempt from Love's sickness :15. Third Act Tune ;*Act IV :16. Song (soprano/Orazia): They tell us that your mighty powers above ;*Act IV :17. Fourth Act Tune [instrumental version of 16. They tell us . . .] ;*Act V :18. Chorus: While thus we bow :19. [Recitative (bass/High Priest & chorus)]: You who at the altar :20. Chorus: All dismal sounds ;*Additional Act [by Daniel Purcell] :21. Symphony :22a. [Recitative] (bass/Hymen): To bless the genial bed :22b. Song (soprano/A Follower of Hymen): Come all at my call :22c. Chorus: Come all and sing great Hymen's praise :22d. Duet (soprano & bass/Two Married People): I'm glad I have met him :22e. Song (bass/Hymen): Good people, I'd make you all blest :22f. Duet (soprano & bass/Two Married People): My honey, my pug :22g. Song (soprano): The joys of wedlock soon are past :22h. Song (alto): Sound, sound the trumpet :22i. Duet (2 basses): Make haste to put on Love's chains :23a. Trumpet Air :23. Chorus: Let loud Renown ;*Appendix :24. Air"

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre → Baroque ♬ Voicing → Solo

◆ Difficulty

Expert (Grade 6-8)

¶ Language → English

Parts 1

Instruments voices, mixed chorus, orchestra, continuo