The flute (recorder) has long been used to imitate
birds in music, as many of the references to Purcell
and Handel and their contemporaries demonstrate. Lines
like "Hark how the songsters of the air", "Hark how the
lark and linnet sing", "Hark! how the songsters of the
grove", "Hush ye pretty warbling quire" say it all.
Henry Purcell's "Timon of Athens" (1694) calls for "a
Symphony of Pipes [ie alto recorders] imitating the
Chirping of Birds".
Although originally written for ...(+)
The flute (recorder) has long been used to imitate
birds in music, as many of the references to Purcell
and Handel and their contemporaries demonstrate. Lines
like "Hark how the songsters of the air", "Hark how the
lark and linnet sing", "Hark! how the songsters of the
grove", "Hush ye pretty warbling quire" say it all.
Henry Purcell's "Timon of Athens" (1694) calls for "a
Symphony of Pipes [ie alto recorders] imitating the
Chirping of Birds".
Although originally written for Chorus and Recorders, I
adapted this piece for Concert (Pedal) Harp and
Woodwinds (2 Flutes & 2 Oboes).
Would you consider publishing this in the original setting for soprano, trumpet, and continuo (using the same realization of the continuo as in the versions you already posted)? I have not found a (free) performing edition on the web so far. (It should be easy to do this in the engraving program used for the arrangements here.)
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