Contains excerpts from musico-dramatic works in piano-vocal score, and songs; for low voice and piano. "The folio edition of the Purcell Society was used as the original text"--Preface.
Contents:
The knotting song. Music for a while -- Ah! how pleasant 'tis love -- Thrice happy lovers -- Sweeter than roses -- What can we poor females do -- Fairest isle -- If music be the food of love (3rd and 1st versions) -- I saw that you were grown so high -- Man is for the woman made -- From rosy bowers -- Ah, Belinda, I am prest -- Thy hand, Belinda! when I am laid in earth -- What shall I do -- Your awful voice -- More love and more disdain -- Since from my dear -- The Blessed Virgin's expostulation -- The fatal hour -- I'll sail upon the dog star -- Silvia, now your scorn -- 'Tis nature's voice -- Bess of Bedlam -- Cease, o my sad soul -- Strike the viol -- Lord, what is man -- Sound the trumpet -- Hark! the ech'ing air -- Not all my torments -- O, lead me to some peaceful gloom -- Sweet, be no longer sad -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly -- An evening hymn -- There's not a swain on the plain -- Nymphs and shepherds -- Hark! how all things -- Come all ye songsters -- Queen's epicedium -- The knotting song.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)52246834
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.