Keyboard Works

Henry Purcell

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780486263632
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486171869
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Classical Music

Renowned for the originality of his music and his gifts as a melodist, Henry Purcell (1659–1695) was the preeminent English composer of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest that nation has ever produced. His gifts are apparent not only in the vocal and orchestral works on which his fame rests, but in his delightful keyboard music, much of which is relatively simple and easy to perform. This volume is a near-complete collection of Purcell's keyboard compositions, including the eight suites, the core of his keyboard works. Also included are many miscellaneous one-movement pieces: airs, trumpet tunes (for harpsichord solo), grounds, preludes, dances, etc.
Piano students and pianists of intermediate skills will enjoy these pieces for their charm and accessibility. Gathered here in one convenient, inexpensive volume, they offer a treasury of time-honored music that musicians and music lovers will turn to again and again.
This volume has been edited with a preface by the noted music scholar William Barclay Squire.

Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
PREFACE
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Suite in G Major
Suite in G Minor
Suite in G Major
Suite in A Minor
Suite in C Major
Suite in D Major
Suite in D Minor
Suite in F Major
Trumpet Tune, called the Cibell
Trumpet Tune in C Major (from Dioclesian)
A Ground in Gamut
Almand in C Major
Saraband with Division
Voluntary in C Major
A Verse in F Major
Trumpet Tune in D Major
Air in D Minor
Air in D Minor
Ground in C Minor
Prelude in A Minor
Toccata in A Major
Hornpipe in E Minor
Air in G Major
Corant in G Major
Minuet in G Major
Voluntary in G Major
Song Tune
March in C Major
March in C Major
New Minuet in D Minor
Minuet in A Minor
Minuet in A Minor
A New Scotch Tune
A New Ground in E Minor
Lilliburlero. A New Irish Tune
Rigadoon
Sefauchi’s Farewell
Minuet in D Minor
Almand [Gavotte] in D Major
Borry [Saraband] in D Major
Verse in the Phrygian Mode
The Queen’s Dolour. A Farewell
Minuet in E Minor
A Ground in D Minor

PREFACE

DURING the last fifty years several collections of Purcell’s Harpsichord Music have appeared. Some of these contain compositions which are now known to have been ascribed to him wrongly, while from time to time various new pieces have come to light. It is believed that the following pages contain all the original compositions that at present can be attributed to him with any degree of certainty. Arrangements (though many are probably from his pen) have been excluded, with the exception of the “New Ground,” from “ Musick’s Handmaid ”–a transcription of the air, “ Here the Deities approve,” from the 1683 St. Cecilia Ode. This has been retained, as the ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• PUBLISHER’S NOTE
• Suite in G Major
• Suite in G Minor
• Suite in G Major
• Suite in A Minor
• Suite in C Major
• Suite in D Major
• Suite in D Minor
• Suite in F Major
• Trumpet Tune, called the Cibell
• Trumpet Tune in C Major (from Dioclesian)
• A Ground in Gamut
• Almand in C Major
• Saraband with Division
• Voluntary in C Major
• A Verse in F Major
• Trumpet Tune in D Major
• Air in D Minor
• Air in D Minor
• Ground in C Minor
• Prelude in A Minor
• Toccata in A Major
• Hornpipe in E Minor
• Air in G Major
• Corant in G Major
• Minuet in G Major
• Voluntary in G Major
• Song Tune
• March in C Major
• March in C Major
• New Minuet in D Minor
• Minuet in A Minor
• Minuet in A Minor
• A New Scotch Tune
• A New Ground in E Minor
• Lilliburlero. A New Irish Tune
• Rigadoon
• Sefauchi’s Farewell
• Minuet in D Minor
• Almand [Gavotte] in D Major
• Borry [Saraband] in D Major
• Verse in the Phrygian Mode
• The Queen’s Dolour. A Farewell
• Minuet in E Minor
• A Ground in D Minor