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Henry Purcell: Dido And Aeneas

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Media: Sheet Music
Language: English
Arrangement: Opera (OPERA)
Skill Level: Advanced - Explain this
Composer: Henry Purcell
Publisher: Novello and Co Ltd
Editor: Thurston Dart; Margaret Laurie

   
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Henry Purcell’s only Opera proper, Dido and Aeneas is a magnificent example of English Baroque music, with lively dances and passionate aria sections that demonstrate Purcell’s masterful compositional and choral writing skill. Based on a libretto by Nahum Tate it was first performed in 1689, comprises three acts and lasts about an hour.

Filled with dramatic lyricism with a wide range of musical and emotional content, it is a monumental Baroque composition considered to be one of England’s foremost operatic works. Dido and Aeneas contains all the elements for a successful opera including a shipwreck, sorcery, love and lost love and death.

This is the Vocal and Full Operatic Score, edited by Margaret Laurie and Thurston Dart. With its interesting and imaginative realization and authentic editorial process this is an excellent edition that features some performing choices and variants and also includes the reconstructed prologue.


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Sales Rank:
444
Published on:
Not specified
Format:
Vocal Score
Length:
112 pages
Language:
English
Catalogue #:
NOV070318
ISBN:
0853602840





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