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PURCELL SOCIETY EDITION COMPANION SERIES

The Purcell Society Edition Companion Series is an important new scholarly edition that will make a significant contribution to the study of music and theatre in Restoration England.

As part of the internationally regarded Purcell Society Edition, the Purcell Society Companion Series presents in modern critical texts – and in many cases for the first time – a varied repertoire of hitherto largely inaccessible work by the composer’s contemporaries, which will both illuminate his own achievement and further our understanding of this flourishing yet complex period of theatrical activity as a whole.

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Most Recent Volumes:
PC3 Draghi: From Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony - January 2011
PC2 Blow: Venus & Adonis - October 2008
PC1 Grabu: Albion and Albanius - February 2008
Next Volume:
PC4 Restoration Trio Sonatas

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Grabu, Louis: Albion and Albanius. Opera Ref: PC1

Edited Bryan White

Albion and Albanius is among the first operas in English, written to a libretto by John Dryden, and produced at the Dorset Garden Theatre, London, on 3 June 1685. Composed by the erstwhile Master of the King's Musick to Charles II, the score is of particular interest as representing the French style of Lully, unusual in English music at the time, and is in striking contrast to the score for Dryden's sequel to the work, King Arthur, with music by Purcell.
Hardback

Price: £80.00

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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Opera Ref: PC2

Edited by Bruce Wood

John Blow's pastoral opera Venus and Adonis, the second volume of the Companion Series, presents another key work from the decade of the 1680s, which was an important focus of transition between the pre-Restoration masque and the genres of opera and semi-opera. Long recognised as influential far beyond its modest scope, this delightful work is newly edited by the distinguished 17th-century scholar Bruce Wood, with the original and the revised version of the work printed in parallel text on facing pages - the first time an opera has ever been presented in this way. Full performing material for the opera, including single-version scores, is now available.
Hardback

Price: £65.00

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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score Ref: Y281

Edited by Bruce Wood

Version 1: Original Version

It is recommended that 32 copies of the performance score are purchased for a performance, for the producer, conductor, continuo player, Venus, Adonis, Cupid, Little Cupids (x 6) and the Chorus (x20). Minor roles (3 Shepherds, Shepherdess, Huntsman) are to be drawn from the Chorus.

Price: £9.95

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Performing Score (Ref: Y283)

2. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Instrumental Parts (Ref: Y282)

3. Purcell, Henry: Come ye Sons of Arts (Ref: D98)

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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Instrumental Parts Ref: Y282

Edited by Bruce Wood

Set of Instrumental Parts (4 x Violin 1/Recorder 1; 4 x Violin 2/Recorder 2; 2 x Viola; 2 x Instrumental Bass)

Customers requiring additional instrumental parts should purchase multiple sets as required.

Price: £50.00

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score (Ref: Y281)

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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Performing Score Ref: Y283

Edited by Bruce Wood

It is recommended that 32 copies of the performance score are purchased for a performance, for the producer, conductor, continuo player, Venus, Adonis, Cupid, Little Cupids (x 6) and the Chorus (x20). Minor roles (3 Shepherds, Shepherdess, Huntsman) are to be drawn from the Chorus.

Price: £9.95

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 1. Performing Score (Ref: Y281)

2. Purcell, Henry: Come ye Sons of Arts (Ref: D98)

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Blow, John: Venus and Adonis. Version 2. Instrumental Parts Ref: Y284

Edited by Bruce Wood

Set of Instrumental Parts (4 x Violin 1/Recorder 1; 4 x Violin 2/Recorder 2; 2 x Viola; 2 x Instrumental Bass)

Customers requiring additional instrumental parts should purchase multiple sets as required.

Price: £50.00

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Christmas is Coming (Ref: D96)

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Draghi: From Harmony from Heav'nly Harmony (A Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687). Ref: PC3

Edited by Bryan White

Never previously published, though surviving in no fewer than five manuscript copies, Draghi’s A Song for St Cecilia's Day of 1687 impressed his contemporaries, and merits admiration from modern audiences for its intrinsic musical qualities and as a crucial reference point for English music of the period. It is by far the largest of Draghi’s surviving works; its rich Italianate scoring includes a pair of trumpets (their first known appearance in an English choral work), and features concerto-like contrasts between voices and instruments. Greatly expanding on its models of court and Cecilian ode, From Harmony testifies both to Draghi’s reputation amongst his English contemporaries, and to his influence in style, form and instrumentation on the composer of Hail! bright Cecilia and The Yorkshire Feast Song (included in the new PE1) in particular.

Price: £55.00

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