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Henry Purcell

(Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695)

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Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, ed.: A Brief Introduction to the Art of Descant, or Composing Music in Parts, by John Playford (PDF files with commentary at acadiau.ca)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The Catch Club, or Merry Companions: Being a Choice Collection of the Most Diverting Catches for Three and Four Voices (PDF at shipbrook.net)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, contrib.: The Fairy-Queen: An Opera, Represented at the Queen's-Theatre by Their Majesties Servants (anonymously written libretto, without music, of Purcell's opera, based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream; London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1692), also contrib. by William Shakespeare
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Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: 10 sonatas of 4 parts (Novello, Ewer, 1896), also by Charles Villiers Stanford (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: 6 vocal duets (Augener, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: 6 vocal duets with pianoforte accompaniment (Augener, in the 1900s), also by Alfred Moffat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Allemande, Sarabande und Cebell (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1887), also by Hugo Wehrle (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Amphitryon, or, The two Socia's a comedy : as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Dryden ; to which is added the musick of the songs, compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcel. (London : Printed for J. Tonson ... and M. Tonson ..., 1690), also by John Dryden, Titus Maccius. Amphitruo Plautus, and Molière (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Amphitryon, or, The two Sosia's a comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal / written by Mr. Dryden ; to which is added the musick of the songs, compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcel. (London : Printed for J. Tonson ... and M. Tonson ..., 1691), also by John Dryden, Titus Maccius. Amphitruo Plautus, and Molière (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Anthem to be performed in St. Martin's Church, on the anniversary meeting, of the governours of the Leicester Infirmary : taken out of the 106th Psalm, verses 1, 2, 4, 46. Set to music by Mr. Henry Purcell, organist and composer to King James II and King William III. (s.n., 1780), also by Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), England) St. Martin's Church (Leicester, and England) Leicester-Infirmary (Leicester (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Awake: and with attention hear : the 34th chapter of Isaiah (Novello, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Battle of Waterloo (Published by E. Riley, 29 Chatham St, 1819), also by C. Ogilvy and G. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Bonduca : music written to the play of that name for soli (soprano, tenor and baritone or bass), chorus and orchestra (Chappell, 1909), also by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Bonduca, or, The British heroine a tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty's servants, with a new entertainment of musick, vocal and instrumental : never printed or acted before. (London : Printed for Richard Bentley ..., 1696), also by John Fletcher and George Powell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The catch club, or, Merry companions being a choice collection of the most diverting catches for three and four voices / compos'd by the late Mr. Henry Purcell, Dr. Blow, &c. (London : Printed for I. Walsh ..., [169-]), also by John Blow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Catches, rounds, two-part and three-part song (Novello, 1990) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Catches, rounds, two-part and three-part songs (Novello ;, 1922), also by J. A. Fuller-Maitland and William Barclay Squire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Chacony; quartet for strings in G minor. (J. & W. Chester, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Chacony, quartet for strings, in G minor (J. & W. Chester, 1925), also by Hannah Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The comical history of Don Quixote. As it was acted at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden, by Their Majesties servants ... pt. I-III. (J. Darby [etc.], 1885), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Thomas D'Urfey (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Deliciæ musicæ being, a collection of the newest and best songs, with the additional musick to the Indian Queen, by Mr. Daniel Purcell, as it is now acted at His Majesties theatre. Most of the songs being within the compass of the flute. With a thorow-bass, for the theorbo-lute, bass-viol, harpsicord, or organ. Composed by several of the best masters. The first book of the second volume. (London : printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Playford at his shop in the Temple-Change, Fleetstreet, and for John Church, sold by Daniel Dring, at the Harrow and Crown at the corner of Cliffords-Inn-Lane in Fleetstreet. And also sold at Oxford by Francis Dollife book-binder, who sells all other musick-books, 1696), also by Henry Playford and Frederick Hendrick van Hove (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Dido & Aeneas, an opera (C. Fischer Inc., 1925), also by Edward J. Dent and Nahum Tate (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Dido and Aeneas (Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, 1924), also by Nahum Tate (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Dido and Aeneas; an opera (Oxford University Press, 1925), also by Nahum Tate (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Dido und Aeneas, tragische Oper in 3 Akten (Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, 1924), also by Rudolf Stephan Hoffmann and Nahum Tate (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Didon et Éne̋e. opéra en trois actes (Heugel, 1927), also by Nahum Tate (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Dioclesian (London : Printed by J. Heptinstall for the author, and are to be sold by John Carr at his shop ..., 1691), also by John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, and Thomas Betterton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Don Quixote (London : Printed for Samuel Briscoe ..., 1694-1696), also by Thomas D'Urfey and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The Duke of Gloucester's birthday ode (Novello, Ewer, 1891), also by William Hayman Cummings (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Early Keyboard Music. A collection of pieces written for the virginal, spinet, harpsichord, and clavichord. (G. Schirmer, 1904), also by Louis Oesterle, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Domenico Scarlatti, Gottlieb Muffat, Johann Mattheson, Franz Xaver Murschhauser, François Couperin, Johann Kuhnau, John Lœillet, Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Pachelbel, John Blow, Bernardo Pasquini, Dietrich Buxtehude, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis Couperin, J. Henry d' Anglebert, Johann Kaspar Kerll, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Henry Du Mont, Johann Jacob Froberger, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, William Byrd, and Richard Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Eight anthems (Novello ;, 1921), also by G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: An evening hymn : song (J.B. Cramer ;, 1927), also by Martin Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Facsimiles of our national anthem, God save the king (Schott & Co., 1902), also by James Oswald, John Bull, Henry Carey, and Alice Chambers Bunten (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The fairy queen : an opera (Novello, 1900), also by J. S. Shedlock and Elkanah Settle (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Fairy queen. Now the maids and the men are making their hay ([London? : s.n., 1692?]), also by Elkanah Settle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The fairy queen. Selections (London : Printed by J. Heptinstall for the author, and are to be sold by John Carr ... by Henry Playford at his shop ..., and at the Theatre in Dorset-Garden, 1692), also by Elkanah Settle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Fantasia upon one note for strings (J. Curwen;, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Fantasias for strings (Boosey & Hawkes, 1927), also by André Mangeot and Peter Warlock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: A fool's preferment, or, The Dukes of Dunstable a comedy, as it was acted at the Queens Theatre in Dorset-Garden, by Their Majesties servants / written by Mr. Durfey ; together with all the songs and notes to 'em, excellently compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcell, 1688. (London : Printed for Jos. Knight, and Fra. Saunders, 1688), also by Thomas D'Urfey and John Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Four-part fantasia[s] no. 1[-9] for strings (J. Curwen;, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Golden sonata : für 2 Violinen mit beziffertem Bass (Augener, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Goldene Sonate für 2 Violinen mit beziffertem Bass (B. Schott's Söhne, 1911), also by Gustav Jensen (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The Gordian knot untied, incidental music. Suite no. 2, for strings (Novello, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The Gordian knot untied, incidental music.Suite no. 1, for strings (Novello, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Harmonia sacra, or, Divine hymns and dialogues First book. : with a thorow-bass for the theorbo-lute, bass-viol, harpsichord, or organ / composed by the best masters of the last and present age ; the words by several learned and pious persons. ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by Edward Jones for Henry Playford ..., 1688), also by Henry Playford and Simon Gribelin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Harmonia sacra, or, Divine hymns and dialogues Second book. : with a thorow-bass for the theorbo-lute, bass-viol, harpsichord, or organ / composed by the best masters of the last and present age ; the words by several learned and pious persons. ([London] In the Savoy : Printed by Edward Jones for Henry Playford ..., 1693), also by Henry Playford and Simon Gribelin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: I'll sail upon the dog star (Oxford University Press, 1928), also by Steuart Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: In these delightful, pleasant groves : four-part madrigal for mixed voices (a cappella) (E. C. Schirmer, 1929), also by H. Clough-Leighter (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Indian Queen. selections. (London : printed by J. Heptinstall; and are to be sold by John May, at his shop under St. Dunstan's Church: and for John Hudgbutt at Tho. Dring's, Bookseller; at the Harrow at Clifford's-lane-end in Fleetstreet, 1695), also by John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Keyboard suites (Schirmer, 1939), also by Louis Oesterle (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: King Arthur (Chappell, 1843), also by G. A. Macfarren and John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: King Arthur; or, The British worthy. A dramatick opera (University Press, 1928), also by John Dryden and Dennis Arundell (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: King Arthur, or, The British worthy a dramatick opera : perform'd at the Queens Theatre by Their Majesties servants / written by Mr. Dryden. (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1691), also by John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The music in Dryden's King Arthur (Boosey :, 1890), also by J. A. Fuller-Maitland and John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: New songs sung in The fool's preferment, or The three dukes of Dunstable (In the Savoy : Printed by E. Jones, for Jos. Knight and Fran. Saunders, at the Blue Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New Exchange in the Strand, 1688), also by Thomas D'Urfey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Ode on St. Cecilia's day (1692) : ("Hail bright Cecilia") (Kalmus, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Organ music (Novello, Ewer, 1895), also by E. J. Hopkins and William Barclay Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Orpheus Britannicus. (Joseph Williams, 1901), also by G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: A pastoral elegy on the death of Mr. John Playford Note, the notes with this mark * over them, are to be sung demiquavers. The words by Mr. Tate. Set by Mr. Henry Purcell. ([London : printed for Henry Playford, 1687]), also by Nahum Tate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The prophetess, or, The history of Dioclesian written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher ; with alterations and additions, after the manner of an opera ; represented at the Queen's Theatre, by Their Majesties servants. (London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1690), also by Thomas Betterton, John Fletcher, and Francis Beaumont (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Richmond heiress. Behold the man ([London? : s.n., 1700?]), also by Thomas D'Urfey, Richard Leveridge, and Mrs. Lindsey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Sacred music (I.A. Novello, 1828), also by Vincent Novello (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Sacred music. Part II, Nine anthems with instrumental accompaniment (Novello ;, 1904), also by G. E. P. Arkwright and H. Ellis Wooldridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Services (Novello ;, 1923), also by Alan Gray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Sonata in G für 2 Violinen und Violoncello als Soli oder Tutti mit Cembalo (C.F. Vieweg, 1928), also by Arthur Egidi (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Sonata in G minor : for violin (J. Curwen :, 1903), also by Frederick Bridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: A song sung by Mrs. Aliff in the play call'd Tyrannick love, or, The royal martyre set by Mr. Henry Purceell [sic] ([London : s.n., 1700?]), also by Thomas D'Urfey and John Dryden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: A song sung by the girl in the Tempest set by Mr H: Purcell and exactly engrav'd by Tho: Cross ([London : s.n., 1696]), also by Thomas Cross (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Songs from the operas for alto (O. Ditson, 1909), also by Henry Edward Krehbiel, A. Goring Thomas, Léo Delibes, Amilcare Ponchielli, Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi, Friedrich von Flotow, Ambroise Thomas, M. I. Glinka, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Gioacchino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Etienne Nicolas Méhul, Giuseppe Giordani, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Adolf Hasse, Leonardo Leo, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Francesco Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Sonnatas of III parts (Paradine, 1975), also by Richard Luckett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Suite (Novello, 1921), also by Albert Coates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Suite in C major for string orchestra with piano (Stainer & Bell, 1920), also by James Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Suites, lessons, and pieces : for the harpsichord (J. & W. Chester, 1918), also by William Barclay Squire (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Suites, lessons, and pieces : for the harpsichord. (J. & W. Chester, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Te Deum laudamus in D, for voices and instruments. Made for St. Cecilia's Day, 1694. (Novello, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The tempest (Novello, 1912), also by William Shakespeare, Thomas Shadwell, and Edward Joseph Dent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Ten pianoforte pieces (Novello, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Thesaurus musicus : a collection of two, three, and four part songs : several of them never before printed, to which are added some choice dialogues set to musick by the most eminent masters (J. Simpson, 1745), also by John Blow, John Frederick Lampe, Maurice Greene, Richard Leveridge, John Weldon, Solomon Eccles, Henry Carey, George Frideric Handel, and Daniel Purcell (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Three elegies upon the much lamented loss of our late most gracious Queen Mary the words of the two first by Mr. Herbert, the latter out of the Oxford verse ; and sett to musick by Dr. Blow and Mr. Henry Purcell. (London : Printed by J. Hepinstall for Henry Playford, 1695), also by John Blow and George Herbert (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: 'Tis natures voice a song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, and sung by himself at St. Cæcelia's feast ; and exactly engrav'd by Tho. Cross. ([London : Tho. Cross, 1693?]), also by T. Cross and Nicholas Brady (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Trumpet tune & air (W. Paxton ;, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: A two part song between Cupid & Bacchus in Timon of Athens set by Mr. Henry Purcell ([London : s.n., 1700]), also by Peter Anthony Motteux (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The vocal and instrumental musick of The prophetess, or The history of Dioclesian (Printed by J. Heptinstall, for the author, and are to be sold by John Carr, 1980) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Vocal music. Selections (London : Printed by J. Heptinstall for Henry Playford ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Welcome songs. Part I (Novello ;, 1905), also by Ralph Vaughan Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: Works. (Novello) (page images at HathiTrust)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The works of Henry Purcell. ([Purcell Society] :, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695: The works of Henry Purcell. ([Purcell Society];, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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