107 songs for solo voices, bass instrument & piano. Pref. in English; includes list of songs omitted. Includes chronological index. Bound with volume 24 Birthday odes for Queen Mary, part 2. IaU
Contents:
Ah! cruel nymph -- Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love -- Ah! what pains! -- Amidst the shades -- Amintas, to my grief I see -- Amintor, heedless of his flock -- Ask me to love -- Bacchus is a power divine -- Beneath a dark, melancholy grove -- Beware, poor shepherds -- Cease, anxious world -- Cease, o my sad soul -- Celia's fond -- Corinna is divinely fair -- Cupid, the slyest rouge alive -- Draw near, you lovers -- Farewell, all joys -- The storm (Farewell, ye rocks) -- The fatal hour comes on -- Fly swift, ye hours -- Bess of Bedlam (From silent shades) -- A pastoral elegy on the death of Mr. John Playford (Gentle shepherds, you that know) -- An allegory (A grasshopper and a fly) -- He himself courts his own ruin -- The knotting song (Hears not my Phillis). An ode to the queen (High on a throne of glittering ore) -- How delightful's the life -- How I sigh when I think -- The thraldom (I came, I saw, and was undone) -- I envy not a monarch's fate -- I fain would be free -- I love and I must (Bell Barr) -- I lov'd fair Celia -- I resolve against cringing -- I saw that you were grown so high -- I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams -- If grief has any pow'r to kill -- If music be the food of love [3 settings] -- Sighs for our late sovereign King Charles the Second (If pray'rs and tears) -- In Chloris all soft charms agree -- In vain we dissemble -- The Queen's epicedium : elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 (Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas) -- Epsom Wells. Leave these useless arts -- A song to a ground (Let each gallant heart). Let formal lovers still pursue -- Let us, kind Lesbias, give away -- Love arms himself in Celia's eyes -- Love is now become a trade -- Love, thou canst hear -- Love's power in my heart -- The last song that Mr. Henry Purcell set before he died (Lovely Albina's come ashore) -- More love, or more distain -- Musing on cares of human fate -- My heart, whenever you appear -- The concealment (No, to what purpose should I speak) -- No watch, dear Celia -- Not all my torments -- O fair Cedaria -- O how happy's he (Joyful cuckoldom) -- Solitude -- Olinda in the shades unseen -- An ode to Cynthia walking on Richmond Hill (On the brow of Richmond Hill) -- Pastora's beauties when unblown -- Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it -- Phillis, talk no more of passion -- Pious Celinda goes to prayers. Rashly I swore I would disown -- Sawny is a bonny lad -- Scarce had the rising sun -- See now the fading glories of the year -- A song upon a ground (She loves and she confesses too) -- She that would gain a faithful lover -- She who my poor heart possesses -- Silvia, now your scorn give over -- Since one poor view -- Since the pox and the plague -- Spite of the godhead, powerful love -- Stript of their green our groves appear -- Sweet, be no longer sad -- Sweet tyraness, I now resign -- The rich rival (They say you're angry) -- Anacreon's defeat (The poet sings the Trojan Wars) -- A thousand sev'ral ways I tried -- Through mournful shades -- Fairy Queen. Turn then thine eyes -- Urge me no more -- We now, my Thyrsis -- What a sad fate [2 settings]. What can we poor females do? -- What hope or us remains -- When first Amintas sued -- When first my shepherdess and I -- When her languishing eyes -- When I a lover pale do see -- When my Aemelia smiles -- When Strephon found his passion vain -- When Thirsis did the splendid eye -- A pastoral coronation song (While Thirsis wrapt on downy sleep) -- Whilst Cynthia sung -- Who but a slave can well express -- Who can behold Florella's charms -- Why so serious, why so grave? -- Ye happy swains whose nymphs are kind -- An elegy upon the death of Mr. Thomas Farmer (Young Thirsis' fate).
Series:
The works of Henry Purcell ; v. XXV Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Works. 1878 ; v. 25. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88678274
OCLC:
(OCoLC)42459152
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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