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Song Tune in C major, ZT 694

Henry Purcell (1,659–1,695)

Key
C major
Style
Baroque
Level
Level 1
Roughly
RCM 1 · ABRSM 1 · Trinity 1 · Henle 1
Lesson
Musicianship
Focus
Two-voice Baroque song transcription in 3/4

What its lesson teaches

1.7 Follow two voices

Study Purcell’s Song Tune in C, ZT 694. The score has three voices: in bars 1–8, play the right-hand line slowly while following or singing the middle line above the bass through its rests and ties. Practise in short chunks; the separate keyboard task practises two-line coordination. The small ornament signs are optional for now; ornaments are taught at Level 4.

Technique
  • C major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

Score: Musalea, from a public-domain edition · public domain

Song Tune, ZT 694

Edition: London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1895 (Purcell Society Edition, Vol. 6), ed. William Barclay Squire (1927) and Edward John Hopkins (1901)

Published: 1895

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/816682

Public-domain source edition(s).

Checked bar by bar against IMSLP #816682 (Purcell Society Edition, vol. 6, ed. Squire), p. 28, 2026-10-28: every bar compared; 0 bars corrected; the left-hand voices of bar 11 laid out as printed.

Adapted by Musalea: converted to MusicXML and prepared for interactive practice.

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