Dido and Aeneas, Z.626: vocal score

Purcell's 1680 masterpiece is presented here in digitally enhanced reissue of a vocal-piano edition prepared by the eminent English musicologist Wiliam Hayman Cummings that was first issued by Novello in 1887.

1. Overture
2. Solo and Chorus: Shake the Cloud
3. Song: Ah! Belinda
4. Recitative: Grief Increases
5. Chorus: When Monarchs Unite
6. Recitative: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring
7. Duet and Chorus: Fear No Danger
8. Recitative: See Your Royal Guest
9. Chorus: Cupid Only
10. Recitative: If Not for Mine
11. Air: Persue Thy Conquest
12. Chorus: To the Hills and the Vales
13. The Triumphing Dance
14. Prelude for the Witches
15. Chorus: Harm's Our Delight
16. Recitative: The Queen of Carthage
17. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
18. Recitative: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun
19. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
20. Duet: But, Ere We this Perform
21. Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
22. Echo Dance of Furies
23. Ritornelle
24. Song and Chorus: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales
25. Song: Oft She Visits
26. Recitative: Behold, upon My Bended Spear
27. Song and Chorus: Haste to Town
28. Recitative: Stay, Prince
29. Prelude, Song and Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors
30. The Sailors' Dance
31. Recitative: See the Flags
32. Song: Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm
33. Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight
34. The Witches' Dance
35. Recitative: Your Counsel
36. Recitative: But Death, Alas!
37. Chorus: Great Minds
38. Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda
39. Song: When I am Laid in Earth
40. With Drooping Wings