For 4 or 5 solo voices, chorus (SATB), and orchestra (trumpet, 2 oboes doubling on recorders, strings and continuo) Unfigured bass realized for keyboard instrument. Previous editions of this work are based on a manuscript score held in the Royal College of Music (Ms. 993) that was made by Robert Pindar in 1765. "This new edition is ... the first to attempt a full-scale reconstruction of the ode that removes Pindar's eighteenth-century "improvements" and seeks to return the music to a form much closer to what Purcell composed"--Pref. Includes preface containing information about the reconstruction and suggestions for performance practice (p. ii-ix); also a list of sources and critical commentary (p. 57-65), all in English. Includes bibliographical references.
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