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The two vocal sections of a song performed in The Fairy Queen (a comic opera by Henry Purcell) is surrounded and separated from each other by instrumental sections. These instrumental sections add to the emotion and feeling of both the text and the vocal melody. The first section of the text is a call to the birds to come and sing. After a recorder prelude painting these birds, the second section of the text involves the calling of nymphs or fairies, “The Sacred Nine,” to come and sing whilst their echo rings out over the forest. The section closes with a horn section and a string section repeating the echoing vocal melody of the last lines of the stanza. A string prelude opens the song. The cello and violins open with a call and response melody. The cello plays its line and is closely followed by the violins echoing the same melody at a different pitch, previewing later portions of the piece. With each phrase the cello and violins play in a pitch close to each other, but the cello plays lower and the violins play higher with each repeating line, until the melody changes and they start over again.
Approximate Word count = 679
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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