Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 (Henry Purcell)
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- (Posted 2020-04-11) CPDL #57937:
- Editor: Calebe Barros (submitted 2020-04-11). Score information: A4, 78 pages, 1.71 MB Copyright: CC BY NC SA
- Edition notes:
- (Posted 2006-06-12) CPDL #11860:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-12). Score information: Letter, 143 pages, 1.14 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.
Individual movements to CPDL #11860
- 1. Overture
- (Posted 2006-04-17) CPDL #11476:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-17). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 62 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Act 1
- 2a-b. Aria: "Shake the cloud from off your brow" - Chorus: "Banish sorrow, banish care"
- (Posted 2006-04-23) CPDL #11531:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-23). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 3. Aria and Ritornello: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) 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"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) CPDL #11720:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 5. Chorus: "When monarchs unite"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) CPDL #11721:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 30 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 6. Trio: "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) CPDL #11722:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 7. Duet and Chorus: "Fear no danger"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) CPDL #11723:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 57 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 8. Trio: "See, your royal guest appears"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) CPDL #11724:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 9. Chorus: "Cupid only throws the dart"
- (Posted 2006-05-15) CPDL #11725:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-15). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 10. Aria: "If not for mine"
- (Posted 2006-05-16) CPDL #11730:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-16). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 11. Prelude and Aria: "Pursue thy conquest, love"
- (Posted 2006-05-16) CPDL #11731:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-16). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 12. Chorus: "To the hills and the vales"
- Edition notes:
- (Posted 2006-05-17) CPDL #11738:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-17). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 76 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 13. Dance: The triumphing dance
- (Posted 2006-05-18) CPDL #11740:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-18). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 54 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Act 2
- 14. Prelude and Aria: "Wayward sisters"
- (Posted 2006-05-19) CPDL #11750:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-19). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 15. Chorus: "Harm's our delight"
- (Posted 2006-05-20) CPDL #11754:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-20). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 16. Aria: "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate"
- (Posted 2006-05-21) CPDL #11756:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 17. Chorus: "Ho ho ho!"
- (Posted 2006-05-21) CPDL #11757:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 18. Witches' Trio: "Ruin'd ere the set of sun"
- (Posted 2006-05-21) CPDL #11758:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 40 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 19. Chorus: "Ho ho ho!"
- (Posted 2006-05-21) CPDL #11759:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-21). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 36 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 20. Chorus: "Witches' Duet - But ere we this perform"
- (Posted 2006-05-22) CPDL #11763:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-22). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 21. Chorus: "In our deep vaulted cell"
- (Posted 2006-05-24) CPDL #11773:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-24). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 22. "Echo dance of the furies"
- (Posted 2006-05-25) CPDL #11774:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-25). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 56 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 23. Ritornello
- (Posted 2006-05-25) CPDL #11775:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-25). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 24a. Aria: "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
- (Posted 2006-05-28) CPDL #11786:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-28). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 24b. Chorus: "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
- (Posted 2006-05-29) CPDL #11794:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-29). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 25a. Aria: "Oft she visits this lone mountain"
- (Posted 2006-05-30) CPDL #11796:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-30). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 48 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 25b. Ritornello: "A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's Women"
- (Posted 2006-05-31) CPDL #11798:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-31). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 26. Aria: "Behold, upon my bended spear"
- (Posted 2006-06-03) CPDL #11805:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-03). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 34 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 27. Aria and Chorus: "Haste, haste to town"
- (Posted 2006-06-04) CPDL #11816:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 64 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 28. Duet: "Stay, Prince"
- (Posted 2006-06-04) CPDL #11818:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Act 3
- 29. Prelude and Aria: "Come away, fellow sailors"
- (Posted 2006-04-18) CPDL #11493:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-18). Score information: Letter, 10 pages, 86 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 30. Dance: The sailor's dance
- (Posted 2006-04-20) CPDL #11521:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-20). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 31 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 31. Trio: "See the flags and the streamers curling"
- (Posted 2006-04-22) CPDL #11523:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 32. Aria: "Our next motion"
- (Posted 2006-04-22) CPDL #11526:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 32 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 33. Chorus: "Destruction's our delight"
- (Posted 2006-04-22) CPDL #11527:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-22). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 46 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 34. Dance: The witches' dance
- (Posted 2006-06-04) CPDL #11819:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-04). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 42 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 35a-b. Aria: "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - Trio: "See, madam where the Prince appears"
- (Posted 2006-06-12) CPDL #11857:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-12). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 36. Chorus: "Great minds against themselves conspire"
- (Posted 2006-05-27) CPDL #11778:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-05-27). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 37 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 37. Aria: "Thy hand Belinda, darkness shades me"
- (Posted 2006-06-06) CPDL #11824:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-06). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 27 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 38. Ground, Aria and Ritornello: "When I am laid in earth"
- (Posted 2006-04-17) CPDL #11479:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-04-17). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 38 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- 39. Chorus: "With drooping wings"
- (Posted 2006-06-07) CPDL #11836:
(Sibelius 4)
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-06-07). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 74 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Excerpts and arrangements
29. Chorus: "Come away, fellow sailors"
- (Posted 2017-11-19) CPDL #47507:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2017-11-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 61 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The chorus written out for a cappella choir.
Final scene "Thy hand … When I am laid … With drooping"
- 37. Aria: "Thy hand Belinda, darkness shades me"
- (Posted 2013-08-18) CPDL #29874:
- Editor: Shaun Pirttijarvi (submitted 2013-08-18). Score information: A4, 12 pages, 132 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Original instrumentation. Please email me if you require a transposition.
- (Posted 2009-05-01) CPDL #19367:
PDFs and Midi available
- Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2009-05-01). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 69 kB (full score 12 pages, 83KB) Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Set for wind quartet, soprano solo, and SATB choir (or a cappella). Vocal and full scores available, and instrument parts.
General Information
Title: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
Composer: Henry Purcell
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB plus 9 solo roles: 2 mezzo-sopranos, 5 sopranos, 2 tenors
Genre: Secular, Opera
Language: English
Instruments: Strings: Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello, Basso Continuo/Harpsichord)
First published: 1841 Musical Antiquarian Society
2nd published: 1889 Purcell Society Works ed. Cummings
3rd published: 1925 ed. Dent (after Tenbury version)
Description: Fowler's edition CPDL #11860: is based on MS 1266 (5) at St. Michaels College, Tenbury, a mid-18c copy. The earliest printed scores (1841 & 1889) follow 4 late-18c mss., making the Sorceress a bass and calling Belinda "Anna", besides differing considerably in musical details. Of the original version only a late 17c libretto survives. It includes 5 lost items: a prologue, dances with guitars following 11. "Pursue thy conquest, love" and 24. "Thanks to these lonesome vales", another witches' scene after Mercury's "Stay, prince, and hear", and an epilogue "All that we know the angels do above".
External websites:
- Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 (Henry Purcell) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
View the Wikipedia article on Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 (Henry Purcell).
Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Dido and Aeneas.
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