 | Purcell, Henry - "Next, Winter Comes Slowly" for WoodWind Quintet Z. 629 No. 36 Woodwind quintet : Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Bassoon |
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| Composer : | Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Woodwind quintet : Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Bassoon | ||||
| Style : | Baroque | ||||
| Arranger : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||||
| Date : | 1692 | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 01 Feb 2013 Henry Purcell wrote the Opera "The Fairy-Queen" (Z.629) in 1692 as a masque or semi-opera considered a "Restoration spectacular". The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's wedding comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. First performed in 1692, The Fairy-Queen was composed three years before Purcell's death at the age of 35. Following his death, the score was lost and only rediscovered early in the twentieth century. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's text to music; instead he composed music for short masques in every act but the first. The play itself was also slightly modernised in keeping with seventeenth-century dramatic conventions, but in the main the spoken text is as Shakespeare wrote it. The masques are related to the play metaphorically, rather than literally. Many critics have stated erroneously that they bear no relationship to the play, but recent scholarship has shown that the opera, which ends with a masque featuring Hymen, the God of Marriage, was actually composed for the fifteenth wedding anniversary of William and Mary. Act IV begins after Titania has been freed from her enchantment, and contains musical references to the Four Seasons (Spring; "Thus, the ever grateful spring", Summer; "Here's the Summer", Autumn; "See my many coloured fields", and Winter; "Now Winter comes slowly"). Although this Aria from Act IV ("Now Winter comes slowly" No. 36) was originally written for Opera, I arranged it for Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn & Bassoon). Sheet central : | The Fairy Queen (17 sheet music) | | |||
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