Fifty Solos, Duets, Trios and Quartets. Par PURCELL HENRY. Fifty Solos, Duets, Trios And Quartets/ Répertoire / 1 à 4 Flûtes à Bec

This outstanding series is an encouragement to beginning singers in preparing a vocal solo. Songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type after consulting many official state contest repertoire lists. All the songs for instance are on the Texas list. The series will be useful to any novice singer not just limited to those preparing an actual contest solo. Each volume contains 10 songs: 5 art songs in English an African-American spiritual 2 songs in Italian a song in German and a song in Spanish. There are new editions and engravings of all songs. Biographical information is included on each composer. Interpretive suggestions are given for each song and the prefaceon Learning a Song is especially instructive. Each companion CD includes beautiful performances of all the songs by a professional singer and excellent accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward. Also on the CD are pronunciation guides in Italian German and Spanish. Mezzo-Soprano Book Contents: An die Musik · The Blue-Bell · He Shall Feed His Flock · My Lord What a Mornin' · Now Is the Month of Maying · Nymphs and Shepherds · Ombra mai fù · Porque toco el pandero · Silent Noon · Vergin tutto amor.

Easier Piano Pieces 78-An anthology of easy pieces from the last forty years of the 17th century: the post-Restoration period which was dominated by the outstanding figure of Henry Purcell. The sources are the most important keyboard collections published in England between 1663 and 1702. These charming pieces provide an ideal introduction to English music of the period and are well-adapted technically to the requirements of beginners and elementary keyboard players.

Purcell's 'Long May She Reign' is arranged here for a full Vocal score with Soprano Alto Tenor and Bass parts.

Tired of carrying multiple collections and assorted sheet music to every wedding you play? This comprehensive collection is a one-stop destination for pianists who play for weddings. Featuring styles ranging from Classical to contemporary, this anthology is a must-have for today?s bride and groom, and contains service music for preludes, processionals, bridal marches, unity candle lightings, recessionals and postludes. Although each piano selection can be played as a solo, there are optional instrumental obbligatos for some pieces, featuring parts for Cello, Oboe, Trumpet, Flute and Violin. In addition, Well-Tempered Weddings contains several classic and contemporary vocal selections suitable for use before and during the wedding ceremony.

This collection for progressing students includes art songs as well as arrangements of folksongs and spirituals. ART SONGS Anonymous: Pastime with good company · Campian: Jack and Joan · Dowland: Come again sweet love · Dowland: What if I never speed · Gibbons: The Silver Swan · Ireland: Spring Sorrow · Lawes: How happy art thou · Morley: It was a lover and his lass · Morley: Now is the month of Maying · Purcell: I attempt from love's sickness · Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds · Quilter: Weep you no more · Vaughan Williams: The Call · Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words · FOLKSONGS/SPIRITUALS All Through the Night (arr. Nicholl) · The Gospel Train (Walters) · Greensleeves(arr. Stanley) · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (arr. Boyd) · How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. Ruck) · I gave my love a cherry (arr. Dean) · Jacob's Ladder (arr. Walters) · My Lord What a Mornin' (arr. Burleigh) · Shenandoah (arr. Walters) · Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (arr. Walters) · This Little Light of Mine (arr. Ruck).

In the aftermath of the destruction of Troy Aeneas escapes across the Mediterranean to Carthage the great Phoenician city built around the eighth century BC and ruled by Dido as its queen. He and Dido fall in love.But Aeneas is destined to be the founder of the city of Rome and is obliged to travel onwards; however Dido is unable to face life without him.Purcell gives Dido this lament - an intimate and conclusive disclosure - as she reveals to her sister the handmaiden Belinda her approaching death.

King Arthur (Arr. Laurie)-King Arthur was the only one of Purcell's professionally produced operas to have been designed as a semi-opera; the others were all adaptations of earlier plays. Dryden made a real attempt to integrate the music into the drama but since he ascribed to the dramatic conventions of the period which virtually confined music to allegorical or supernatural beings and thier worshippers or servants shepherds and similar characters the main action mostly occurs in the spoken sections and even the two singing characters Philidel and Grimbald speak more than they sing.

Sonatas X-XII-This is the full printed sheet music Violin 2 part for Henry Purcell's 12 Sonatas Of Three Parts (Sonatas X-XII). Henry Purcell was a 17th century English Baroque composer considered to be one of the greatest English composers of all time.