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BTC1006 PURCELL: 'TIS HOLIDAY [SUITE OF SONGS FROM ORPHEUS BRITANNICUS/5A]

For high voice and orchestra
Composition date: Oct 1946
Genre: Purcell realization
Text: Nahum Tate

From Birthday song for Queen Mary, 1693.

Performing forces:

Orchestra: 2 fl, 2 ob, bn - tpt in C - str

Notes

Adapted from Tis sacred, bid the trumpet, Z 321/5. Not in fact published in the collection Orpheus Britannicus.

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