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Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 (Henry Purcell)

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Complete work

Orchestral Parts: 1st-Violin:Icon_pdf.gif, 2nd-Violin:Icon_pdf.gif, Viola:Icon_pdf.gif, Basso Cont.:Icon_pdf.gif, Chorus (unfinished):Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-12).   Score information: Letter, 143 pages, 1167 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Individual movements

1. Overture

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-17).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 62 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Act 1

2a-b. Aria: "Shake the cloud from off your brow" - Chorus: "Banish sorrow, banish care"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-23).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 52 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

3. Aria and Ritornello: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 62 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

4. Duet: "Grief increases by concealing"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 30 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

5. Chorus: "When monarchs unite"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 30 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

6. Trio: "Whence could so much virtue spring?"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 47 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

7. Duet and Chorus: "Fear no danger"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 57 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

8. Trio: "See, your royal guest appears"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 33 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

9. Chorus: "Cupid only throws the dart"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

10. Aria: "If not for mine"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-16).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

11. Prelude and Aria: "Pursue thy conquest, love"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-16).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 43 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

12. Chorus: "To the hills and the vales"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-17).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 76 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

13. Dance: The triumphing dance

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-18).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 54 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Act 2

14. Prelude and Aria: "Wayward sisters"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-19).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

15. Chorus: "Harm's our delight"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-20).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 36 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

16. Aria: "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 27 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

17. Chorus: "Ho ho ho!"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 38 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

18. Witches' Trio: "Ruin'd ere the set of sun"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 40 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

19. Chorus: "Ho ho ho!"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 36 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

20. Chorus: "Witches' Duet - But ere we this perform"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-22).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 43 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

21. Chorus: "In our deep vaulted cell"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-24).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 53 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

22. "Echo dance of the furies"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-25).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 56 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

23. Ritornello

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-25).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 39 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

24a. Aria: "Thanks to these lonesome vales"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-28).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 33 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

24b. Chorus: "Thanks to these lonesome vales"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-29).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 48 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

25a. Aria: "Oft she visits this lone mountain"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-30).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 48 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

25b. Ritornello: "A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's Women"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-31).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 37 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

26. Aria: "Behold, upon my bended spear"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-03).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 34 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

27. Aria and Chorus: "Haste, haste to town"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 64 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

28. Duet: "Stay, Prince"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 53 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Act 3

29. Prelude and Aria: "Come away, fellow sailors"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-18).   Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 86 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

30. Dance: The sailor's dance

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-20).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 31 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

31. Trio: "See the flags and the streamers curling"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 46 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

32. Aria: "Our next motion"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 32 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

33. Chorus: "Destruction's our delight"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

34. Dance: The witches' dance

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 42 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

35a-b. Aria: "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - Trio: "See, madam where the Prince appears"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-12).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

36. Chorus: "Great minds against themselves conspire"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-27).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 37 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

37. Aria: "Thy hand Belinda, darkness shades me"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-06).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 27 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

38. Ground, Aria and Ritornello: "When I am laid in earth"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-17).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 38 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

39. Chorus: "With drooping wings"

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-07).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

40. Epilogue: "All that we know the angels do above"

General Information

Title: Dido and Aeneas
Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB plus 9 Soloists: 2 Mezzo-Sopranos, 5 Sopranos, 2 Tenors
Genre: Secular, Opera

Language: English
Instruments: Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello, Basso Continuo, Harpsichord
Published: 1689

Description: Score based on MS 1266 (5) at St. Michaels College, Tenbury

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Dido and Aeneas.

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