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Purcell, Henry - "Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove" for Harp and Woodwinds
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Composer :	Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695)
Instrumentation :	Harp
Style :	Baroque
Arranger :	MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - )
Publisher :	MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL
Date :	1692
Copyright :	Public Domain
	Added by magataganm, 05 Jun 2012
The flute (recorder) has long been used to imitate birds in music, as many of the references to Purcell and Handel and their contemporaries demonstrate. Lines like "Hark how the songsters of the air", "Hark how the lark and linnet sing", "Hark! how the songsters of the grove", "Hush ye pretty warbling quire" say it all. Henry Purcell's "Timon of Athens" (1694) calls for "a Symphony of Pipes [ie alto recorders] imitating the Chirping of Birds". Although originally written for Chorus and Recorders, I adapted this piece for Concert (Pedal) Harp and Woodwinds (2 Flutes & 2 Oboes).

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By lemare, 02 Aug 2020 at 03:18

Would you consider publishing this in the original setting for soprano, trumpet, and continuo (using the same realization of the continuo as in the versions you already posted)? I have not found a (free) performing edition on the web so far. (It should be easy to do this in the engraving program used for the arrangements here.)

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