Purcell, Henry - A Third Set of Theatre Tunes

Henry Purcell became an increasingly prolific composer of incidental music for the theatre in the late 1680s and 1690s. Gwilym Beechey, following on from his First and Second Sets of Theatre Tunes (ED 12232, ED 12294) has skilfully selected and arranged 12 of these theatre works for the intermediate descant recorder player. Pieces include Airs, Hornpipes, Borees, a Rondeau and a March composed as incidental music for the plays The Married Beau (1694), Bonduca (1695), The Double Dealer (1693), The Gordion Knot Unty’d (1691), The Rival Sisters (1695) and The Virtuous Wife (1694).

CONTENTS

Contents
The Married Beau: March in G major
Bonduca: Air in D minor
The Double Dealer: Hornpipe in F major -The Double Dealer: Air in G minor
The Gordion Knot Unty'd: Air in D major
The Gordion Knot Unty'd: Rondeau Minuet in G minor
The Rival Sisters: Air in D major
The Virtuous Wife: Slow Air in C minor
The Rival Sisters: Boree in D major
The Married Beau: Hornpipe in F major
The Virtuous Wife: Boree in G minor
The Married Beau: Hornpipe on a Ground in C major