Dido and Aeneas: Vocal score (Oxford Operas)

ISBN 10: 0193378655 ISBN 13: 9780193378650

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1987

Synopsis

An opera with instrumental parts for strings, keyboard continuo, plus optional guitar for dances This edition, with English and German texts, is based on that by Edward Dent (first published in 1925), but includes more recent scholarship. The preface presents a history of the work. The score is both scholarly and practical for performers.

About this title

About the Author:

Purcell was the outstanding musician and composer of his time in Britain. Like other seventeenth-century musicians, Purcell's career began in the church, first as a chorister at the Chapel Royal, then as organist at Westminster Abbey composing anthems. At court he enjoyed the favour of successive monarchs composing odes on special occasions, but his works for Mary II are the best known, composed when Purcell was reaching the height of his powers, just before his premature death.

From the Back Cover:

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the material has never before appeared in English.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0193378655
• ISBN 13: 9780193378650
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Edward J Dent