This hymn of Purcell’s sets words by Dr William Fuller Lord Bishop of Lincoln and was the opening work of Henry Playford’s 1688 Harmonia Sacra. It is unclear how or when the piece would have been performed as it does not fit any liturgical function.However the hymn is untainted Purcell in style and quality. Purcell laid out the five-bar ground bass at the start of the work and shifts it only slightly and effectively for emphasis in the middle of the song.

Par PURCELL HENRY. Purcell composée de six de ses plus beaux odes à honorer les anniversaires de la Reine Marie dans les années successives de 1689. Arrivé, ye, fils de l'art (1694) suivi des récents succès d'étape et contient certains du compositeur plus pétillant et mémorable écriture instrumentale et vocale. Cette édition performante faisant autoritaire est préparée par le principal expert, Purcell Robert King./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Dramatic Music Part 1 (Full Score)-A highly authoritative and accurate edition of Henry Purcell's Dramatic Music with a wide selection of his Vocal and Instrumental music for the stage. This edition has been edited under the supervision of the Purcell Society by Margaret Laurie.

A Purcell Anthology sees for the first time all of the Henry Purcell's most popular anthems all in one book. The collection includes such famous pieces as Rejoice In The Lord Away and Hear My Prayer and covers a whole range of full verse and symphony anthems. The book contains completely new and specially prepared performing editions with fully realized organ parts and easily playable score reductions of the anthems with strings. Those choirs which care about giving first class performances will find the selection of pieces the immaculate editing and the authoritative information on performance practice indispensable.

Henry Purcell's O Solitude from Purcell Society Edition Vol. 25 (Secular songs for solo voice). Edited by Margaret Laurie (1985) for Solo voice Continuo and Harpsichord accompaniment.

The Fairy Queen (Full Score). Par PURCELL HENRY. Purcell Society Edition #12. The Fairy Queen In Full Score. The drama adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . The work may be perfomed with a minimum of five soloists: Soprano I, Soprano II, Alto or countertenor, or Tenor, Tenor, Bass. The orchestral scoring consists of two recorders, two oboes, two trumpets, timpani, strings and continuo. Orchestral parts are available for hire from the publisher. Vocal Score available for sale. / Rép Classique / Répertoire / Conducteur

In completion of the first part (Hortus Musicus 50 now out of print) this second part to the 'Music To The Midsummer Night's Dream' contains all the remaining four-part instrumental pieces from Henry Purcell's opera 'The Fairy Queen' (1692). Similar to the pieces in the first part the composer wrote them for performance by Strings but they can also be played by Wind Instruments only (in particular wood-wind) or with string and wind instruments mixed and also with one or several instruments to a part. The pieces were put in such an order that they again present a small self-contained suite.The titles to the several numbers which arepartly mentioned more exactly in this book indicate their place in the above named opera by Purcell. They elucidate at the same time the character of the various pieces. Thus No.1 Air (Second Music) is originally a (second) introductory piece of music for the opera which still precedes the actual Overture. No.2 Jig No.5 Air and No.8 Air are instrumental postludes to the first fourth and second acts of the opera respectively whereas No.4 'Dance for the Followers of Night' No.6 'Dance for the Green Men' and No.7 'Monkeys' Dance' present a motley picture of the operatic construction which provided a great number of allegoric persons and figures. From a purely musical point of view this second part too of the 'Music To The Midsummer Night's Dream' contains gems of old instrumental music. May this present book help to gain new friends for the noble art of the great Old-English composer.

Since The Duke Is Return'd is a work by Henry Purcell a catch for three voices. The piece lasts around 2 minutes. This piece is number 31 from 'Catches' edited by Ian Spink (Purcell Society Edition Vol. 22A).

Henry Purcell was an English composer and although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no other native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar well into the 19 th century.Edited by Anthony Lewis and Nigel Fortune for SATB Voices (Verse and Chorus) for this Novello edition O Give Thanks Unto The Lord is averse anthem composed to the words of Psalm 106 in 1693. A perfect addition of aBaroque piece to the choir repertoire!

POD-Henry Purcell's Pavan Of Four Voices from Purcell Society Edition Vol. 31. Scored for three Violins Bass Viol and Continuo. Score and parts.