Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695)

A Third Set of Theatre Tunes

descant recorder, piano

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Details
For
descant recorder, piano
Author / Composer
Henry Purcell
Editor
Beechey, Gwilym
Product number
485443
Release Year
2008
Extent
24 Pages
Description

Henry Purcell became an increasingly prolific composer of incidental music for the theatre in the late 1680s and 1690s. Gwilym Beechey, following on from his First and Second Sets of Theatre Tunes (ED 12232, ED 12294) has skilfully selected and arranged 12 of these theatre works for the intermediate descant recorder player. Pieces include Airs, Hornpipes, Borees, a Rondeau and a March composed as incidental music for the plays The Married Beau (1694), Bonduca (1695), The Double Dealer (1693), Th...

Content
  • Contents
  • The Married Beau: March in G major
  • Bonduca: Air in D minor
  • The Double Dealer: Hornpipe in F major -The Double Dealer: Air in G minor
  • The Gordion Knot Unty'd: Air in D major
  • The Gordion Knot Unty'd: Rondeau Minuet in G minor
  • The Rival Sisters: Air in D major
  • The Virtuous Wife: Slow Air in C minor
  • The Rival Sisters: Boree in D major
  • The Married Beau: Hornpipe in F major
  • The Virtuous Wife: Boree in G minor
  • The Married Beau: Hornpipe on a Ground in C major