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BTC871 PURCELL: HARK THE ECH'ING AIR! Z 629/48B [HP FIVE SONGS/3]

For high voice and piano
Composition date: Between Jun-19 Nov 1939
Date notes

19 November 1939 is the date of the first known performance.

Genre: Purcell realization
Text: Anon., from ''The fairy queen''
Duration: 2'

Notes

The original song was in Purcell's Orpheus britannicus, although this realization is not related to that included in the Britten-Pears-Holst edition of the complete work. Orchestrated in February 1963.

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