Dido and Aeneas, Z.626: Vocal score

by Henry Purcell, William Hayman Cummings (Composer)

Overview

Purcell's operatic masterpiece based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid in which the tragic tale of despair when Dido, Queen of Cathage was abnandoned by her Trojan lover Aeneas is presented here in digitally enhanced reissue of a vocal-score edition prepared by the eminent English musicologist Wiliam Hayman Cummings that was first issued by Novello in 1887. The opera was probably first performed in London in late 1689 but may have been composed nearly a decade before. Matching large conductor's score and orchestra material also available from Serenissima Music (92328).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932419276
Publisher:	Serenissima Music
Publication date:	04/10/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.15(d)

Table of Contents

• Overture
• 1. Solo and Chorus: Shake the Cloud
• 2. Song: Ah! Belinda
• 3. Recitative: Grief Increases
• 4. Chorus: When Monarchs Unite
• 5. Recitative: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring
• 6. Duet and Chorus: Fear No Danger
• 7. Recitative: See Your Royal Guest
• 8. Chorus: Cupid Only
• 9. Recitative: If Not for Mine
• 10. Air: Persue Thy Conquest
• 11. Chorus: To the Hills and the Vales
• 12: The Triumphing Dance
• 13. Prelude for the Witches
• 14. Chorus: Harm's Our Delight
• 15. Recitative: The Queen of Carthage
• 16. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
• 17. Recitative: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun
• 18. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
• 19. Duet: But, Ere we This Perform
• 20. Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
• 21. Echo Dance of Furies
• 22. Ritornelle
• 23. Song and Chorus: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales
• 24. Song: Oft She Visits
• 25. Recitative: Behold, Upon My Bended Spear
• 26. Song and Chorus: Haste to Town
• 27. Recitative: Stay, Prince
• 28. Prelude, Song and Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors
• 29. The Sailors' Dance
• 30a. Recitative: See the Flags
• 30b. Song: Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm
• 31. Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight
• 32. The Witches' Dance
• 33. Recitative: Your Counsel
• 34. Recitative: But Death, Alas!
• 35. Chorus: Great Minds
• 36. Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda
• 37. Song: When I am Laid in Earth
• 38. With Drooping Wings