Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 - Purcell, Henry

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"Fowler's edition CPDL #11860 is based on MS 1266 (5) at St. Michaels College, Tenbury, a mid-18c copy. The earliest printed scores (1841 & 1889) follow 4 late-18c mss., making the Sorceress a bass and calling Belinda "Anna", besides differing considerably in musical details. Of the original version only a late 17c libretto survives. It includes 5 lost items: a prologue, dances with guitars following 11. "Pursue thy conquest, love" and 24. "Thanks to these lonesome vales", another witches' scene after Mercury's "Stay, prince, and hear", and an epilogue "All that we know the angels do above"."

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Operas

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Expert (Grade 6-8)

↕ Range G0 – G7

¶ Language → English

Measures 1220

Texture mixed texture

Parts 15

Instruments SATB, Orchestra

Pages 78

CPDL # 57937

Editor Calebe Barros

Posted 2020-04-11

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

♫Pitch Ranges

Violin I

A2 – G7

Violin II

G1 – C7

Viola

A1 – E-6

Dido

A3 – G5

Belinda

D3 – C6

2nd Woman

G2 – G5

Æneas

G2 – G5

Soprano

B3 – G5

Alto

D3 – D5

Tenor

D3 – G4

Bass

B-0 – D#4

Spirit

E3 – G5

Sorceress

C4 – G5