The Fairy Queen, Z.629 (Purcell, Henry)

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Papalin (2014/1/17)

13 more: Jig • Sing While we Trip it Upon the Green • One Charming Night • Hush No More • If Love's a Sweet Passion • Dance for the Fairies • When I have Often Heard Young Maids • A Thousand Ways We'll Find • Next, Winter Comes Slowly • Entry Dance • Thus Happy and Free • Chaconne • They Shall be as Happy as They're Fair

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Chaconne (Act V)

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12 more: Jig • Sing While We Trip It Upon the Green • One Charming Night • Hush, No More • If Love's a Sweet Passion • Dance for the Fairies • When I Have Often Heard Young Maids • A Thousand Ways We'll Find • Next, Winter Comes Slowly • Thus Happy and Free • Chaconne • They Shall be as Happy as They're Fair

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Reccmo (2012/6/10)

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For 2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones (Rondeau)

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Michrond (2012/6/8)

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For 3 Recorders (Tennent)

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Next Winter Comes Slowly (Act IV)

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Sheet Music

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Carolus (2020/2/27)

Editor John South Shedlock (1843-1919)
Publisher. Info. The Works of Henry Purcell, Vol.XII
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1903. Plate 11173.
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Overture (Act I)

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Chaconne (Act V)

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Editor John South Shedlock (1843-1919)
Publisher. Info. London: Novello and Co., n.d.(ca.1920).
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Suite (21 numbers)

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8 more: Oboe 2 • Trumpet 1 • Trumpet 2 • Timpani • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Contiuno (Cellos/Basses, Harpsichord)

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Chaconne (Act V)

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Vocal Scores

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Editor John South Shedlock (1843-1919)
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Molaso (2021/6/7)

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Publisher. Info. London: J. Heptinstall, for the Author, 1692.
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Misc. Notes RISM A/I: P 5876
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Duet: Turn Then Thine Eyes (Act V)

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Feduol (2022/10/27)

Editor William Barclay Squire (1855-1927)
John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1856-1936)
Publisher. Info. The Works of Henry Purcell, Vol.XXII (pp.137-138)
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1922. Plate 14731.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

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For 4 Recorders (Tennent)

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15 more: Rondeau • Jig • Sing While we Trip it Upon the Green • One Charming Night • Hush No More • If Love's a Sweet Passion • Dance for the Fairies • When I have Often Heard Young Maids • A Thousand Ways We'll Find • Next, Winter Comes Slowly • Entry Dance • Thus Happy and Free • Chaconne • They Shall be as Happy as They're Fair • Engraving files (MusicXML, for MIDI)

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For 3 Recorders (Tennent)

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Incidental Music, Vol.1 (10 numbers)

For Strings and Continuo (Höckner)

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Editor Hilmar Höckner (1891-1968)
Friedrich Wilhelm Lothar (1885-1971), continuo
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Hortus Musicus, No.50
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Incidental Music, Vol.2 (9 numbers)

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Editor Hilmar Höckner (1891-1968)
Friedrich Wilhelm Lothar (1885-1971), continuo
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Hortus Musicus, No.58
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Rondeau (2nd Music)

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Ouverture (Act I)

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Next, Winter Comes Slowly (Act IV)

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Chaconne (Act V)

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For 4 Instruments (Dich)

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3rd part: clarinet in B, clarinet in B (low), alto clarinet in E, viola, horn in F
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General Information

Work Title The Fairy Queen
Alternative. Title Semi-opera in Five Acts
Name Translations The Fairy-Queen; La reina de las hadas; La reina de les fades; Փերիների թագուհին; A Tündérkirálynő; Královna víl; La regina delle fate; Fairy-Queen; 妖精女王; La Fereĝino; 妖精の女王 (パーセル)
Name Aliases The fairy queen; Fairy Queen; Królowa elfów‏; 仙后
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 184684091; LCCN: n81036058; GND: 300122888; BNF: 139212350; NLA: 35213725
Composer Purcell, Henry
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Z.629
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IHP 15
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 5 acts
First Performance. 1692-05-02 in London, Dorset Garden
First Publication. 1692 (selections)
Librettist Anonymous, after William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Language English
Average DurationAvg. Duration 2 hours
1a. First Music: Prelude
1b. First Music: Hornpipe
2a. Second Music: Air
2b. Second Music: Rondeau
  • Act I
3. Overture
4a. Prelude to Come leave the Town
4b. Duet (soprano & bass): Come let us leave the Town
Scene of the Drunken Poet
5a. Solos (sopranos & baritone): Fill up the bowl
5b. About him go
6. First Act Tune (Jig)
  • Act II
7a. Prelude to Come all ye songsters
7b. Solo (alto): Come all ye songsters
7c. Trio (alto, tenor & bass): May the God of Wit inspire
7d. Echo
7e. Chorus: Now join your warbling voices
7f. Solo (soprano) and Chorus: Sing while we trip it
8a. Song (soprano): See, even Night herself is here
8b. Song (bass): I am come to lock all fast
8c. Song (alto): One charming night
8d. Song (bass) and Chorus: Hush, no more, be silent
9. Dance for the Followers of Night
10. Second Act Tune (Air)
  • Act III
11a. Prelude to If love's a sweet passion
11b. Song (soprano): If love's a sweet passion
11c. Chorus: I press her hand gently
12. Overture - Symphony While the Swans Come Forward
13. Dance for the Fairies
14. Dance for the Green Men
15. Song (soprano): Ye gentle spirits of the air
16. Dialogue between Coridon and Mopsa (alto & bass): Now the maids and the men are making
17. Song (soprano): When I have often heard
18. Dance for the Haymakers
19. Song (alto) and Chorus: A thousand, thousand ways
20. Third Act Tune (Hornpipe)
  • Act IV
21. Symphony [*** - Canzona - Largo - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro]
22. Solo (soprano) & Chorus: Now the night is chas'd
23. Duet (altos): Let the fifes and the clarions
24. Entry of Phoebus
25a. Song (tenor): When a cruel long winter
25b. Chorus: Hail! Great parent
26. Song (soprano): Thus the ever grateful Spring
27a. Prelude to Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay
27b. Song (alto): Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay
28a. Prelude to See, see my many colour'd fields
28b. Song (tenor): See, see my many colour'd fields
29. Song (bass): Next, Winter comes slowly
repeat 25b/Chorus: Hail! Great parent
30. Fourth Act Tune (Air)
  • Act V
31. Prelude
32. Epithalamium (soprano): Thrice happy lovers
33. Song (soprano): The plaint [O let me weep!]
34. Entry Dance
35. Symphony
36. Song (alto): Thus the gloomy world
37a. Symphony
37b. Solo (soprano) & Chorus: Thus happy and free
38. Song (alto): Yes, Xansi
39. Monkey's Dance
40. Song (soprano): Hark, how all things
41. Song (soprano) & Chorus: Hark! The ech'ing air
42a. Soli and Trio (2 sopranos & bass): Sure the dull God of Marriage
42b. Chorus: Hymen, appear!
43a. Prelude to See, I obey
43b. Solo (bass): See, I obey
43c. Duet (2 sopranos): Turn, turn, then, thine eyes
43d. Solo (bass): My torch indeed
43e. Trio (2 sopranos & bass) & Chorus: They shall be as happy
44. Chaconne - Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
  • Appendix I
45. Chorus: May the God of Wit inspire
  • Appendix II
46. Song (bass): Next, Winter comes slowly
  • Appendix III
47. Entry Dance
  • Appendix IV
48. Air [closely related to music in 44. Chaconne]
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voices, chorus, orchestra
InstrDetail 2 recorders, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings, continuo
Discography All Music Guide
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