Songs for 2-3 voices with continuo; duets principally for high and low voice with continuo. Continuo realized for keyboard instrument. Includes introduction (p. ix-xiv) and critical commentary (pages 211-228). Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Duets. A grasshopper and a fly : Z.481 ; Above the tumults of a busy state : Z.480 ; Alas, how barbarous are we : Z.482 ; Come, dear companions of th' Arcadian fields : Z.483 ; Come lay by all care : Z.484 ; Dulcibella, whene'er I sue for a kiss : Z.485 ; Fair Cloe my breast so alarms : Z.486 ; Fill the bowl with rosy wine : Z.487 ; Go tell Aminta, gentle swain : Z.489 ; Here's to thee, Dick : Z.493 ; How sweet is the air and refreshing : Z.495 ; In some kind dream : Z.497 ; I saw fair Chloris all alone : Z.498 ; I spy Celia, Celia eyes me : Z.499 ; Julia, your unjust disdain : Z.500 ; Let Hector, Achilles, and each brave commander : Z.501 ; Lost is my quiet for ever : Z.502 ; Nestor, who did to thrice man's age attain : Z.503 ; O dive custos : Z.504 ; Oft am I by the women told : Z.505 ; Saccharissa's grown old, and almost past sport : Z.507 ; Sylvia, thou brighter eye of night : Z.511 ; Though my mistress be fair : Z.514 ; Underneath this myrtle shade : Z.516 ; Were I to choose the greatest bliss : Z.517 ; When gay Philander left the plain : Z.519 ; When, lovely Phyllis, thou art kind : Z.520 ; When Myra sings : Z.521 ; When Teucer from his father fled : Z.522 ; While bolts and bars my day control : Z.523 -- Dialogues. Has yet your breast no pity learn'd : Z.491 ; Haste, haste gentle Charon : Z.490 ; Hence, fond deceiver, hence begone! : Z.492 ; Sit down, my dear Sylvia : Z.509 ; While you for me alone had charms : Z.524 ; Why, my Daphne, why complaining : Z.525 -- Trios. 'Tis wine was made to rule the day : Z.546 ; When the cock begins to crow : Z.D171 -- Appendix. A poor blind woman : Z.D171 ; In all our Cynthia's shining sphere : Z.496 ; To this place we're now come : Z.N526 ; What can we poor females do? : Z.518.
Series:
The works of Henry Purcell ; v. 22B Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Works. 1961 ; v. 22B. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91030689
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