Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 (Henry Purcell)
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- CPDL #11860: Sibelius 4
- Orchestral Parts: 1st-Violin:[ ], 2nd-Violin:[ ], Viola:[ ], Basso Cont.:[ ], Chorus (unfinished):[ ]
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-12). Score information: Letter, 143 pages, 1.14 MB Copyright: CPDL
Individual movements
1. Overture
- CPDL #11476: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-17). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
Act 1
2a-b. Aria: "Shake the cloud from off your brow" - Chorus: "Banish sorrow, banish care"
- CPDL #11531: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-23). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
3. Aria and Ritornello: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"
- CPDL #11719: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
4. Duet: "Grief increases by concealing"
- CPDL #11720: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
5. Chorus: "When monarchs unite"
- CPDL #11721: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
6. Trio: "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
- CPDL #11722: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL
7. Duet and Chorus: "Fear no danger"
- CPDL #11723: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CPDL
8. Trio: "See, your royal guest appears"
- CPDL #11724: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL
9. Chorus: "Cupid only throws the dart"
- CPDL #11725: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
10. Aria: "If not for mine"
- CPDL #11730: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-16). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB Copyright: CPDL
11. Prelude and Aria: "Pursue thy conquest, love"
- CPDL #11731: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-16). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
12. Chorus: "To the hills and the vales"
- CPDL #11738: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-17). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 76 kB Copyright: CPDL
13. Dance: The triumphing dance
- CPDL #11740: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-18). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 54 kB Copyright: CPDL
Act 2
14. Prelude and Aria: "Wayward sisters"
- CPDL #11750: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-19). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
15. Chorus: "Harm's our delight"
- CPDL #11754: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-20). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL
16. Aria: "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate"
- CPDL #11756: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL
17. Chorus: "Ho ho ho!"
- CPDL #11757: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL
18. Witches' Trio: "Ruin'd ere the set of sun"
- CPDL #11758: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
19. Chorus: "Ho ho ho!"
- CPDL #11759: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL
20. Chorus: "Witches' Duet - But ere we this perform"
- CPDL #11763: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-22). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
21. Chorus: "In our deep vaulted cell"
- CPDL #11773: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-24). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL
22. "Echo dance of the furies"
- CPDL #11774: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-25). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 56 kB Copyright: CPDL
23. Ritornello
- CPDL #11775: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-25). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL
24a. Aria: "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
- CPDL #11786: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-28). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL
24b. Chorus: "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
- CPDL #11794: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-29). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
25a. Aria: "Oft she visits this lone mountain"
- CPDL #11796: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-30). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
25b. Ritornello: "A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's Women"
- CPDL #11798: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-31). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
26. Aria: "Behold, upon my bended spear"
- CPDL #11805: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-03). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 34 kB Copyright: CPDL
27. Aria and Chorus: "Haste, haste to town"
- CPDL #11816: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 64 kB Copyright: CPDL
28. Duet: "Stay, Prince"
- CPDL #11818: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL
Act 3
29. Prelude and Aria: "Come away, fellow sailors"
- CPDL #11493: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-18). Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 86 kB Copyright: CPDL
30. Dance: The sailor's dance
- CPDL #11521: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-20). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 31 kB Copyright: CPDL
31. Trio: "See the flags and the streamers curling"
- CPDL #11523: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
32. Aria: "Our next motion"
- CPDL #11526: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 32 kB Copyright: CPDL
33. Chorus: "Destruction's our delight"
- CPDL #11527: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
34. Dance: The witches' dance
- CPDL #11819: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 42 kB Copyright: CPDL
35a-b. Aria: "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - Trio: "See, madam where the Prince appears"
- CPDL #11857: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-12). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kB Copyright: CPDL
36. Chorus: "Great minds against themselves conspire"
- CPDL #11778: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-27). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
37. Aria: "Thy hand Belinda, darkness shades me"
- CPDL #11824: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-06). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL
38. Ground, Aria and Ritornello: "When I am laid in earth"
- CPDL #11479: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-17). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL
39. Chorus: "With drooping wings"
- CPDL #11836: Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-07). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kB 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: Strings (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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