This Rondeau is from the incidental music by Purcell for a theatre work called "Abdelazar", and has been arranged here for four recorders. This same theme was used to great effect by Benjamin Britten in his fun yet educational piece called A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, and the film Pride and Prejudice also incorporates this familiar music. You can print the Score or the four parts for Soprano (or Descant) Recorder, Alto, Tenor and Bass Recorders. The video below illustrates the music with a graphical animation, or you can play the mp3 file and see the sheet music score before downloading. The same work is also available from mfiles as a Piano arrangement.
Here is a video of Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelazar for SATB recorders:
The audio controls below allow you to play the mp3 version of Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelazar for SATB recorders or you can download the MP3 file. You can also download the midi version of Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelazar for SATB recorders.
The image below is the first page of the sheet music, and here you can download the full sheet music for Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelazar for SATB recorders in PDF format.
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