Secular songs for solo voice / edited under the supervision of the Purcell Society by Margaret Laurie.

Author/creator Purcell, Henry
Other author Laurie, Margaret, 1935- editor.
Other author Purcell Society, issuing body.
Format Musical Score
Edition[New edition].
Publication InfoBorough Green, Kent : Novello, ©1985.
Description1 score (xxiv, 316 pages) ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Songs with continuo--Scores.

Uniform titleSongs. Selections
SeriesThe works of Henry Purcell ; v. 25
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Works. 1961 ; v. 25. ^A881281
Contents A choir of bright beauties -- A thousand sev'ral ways -- Aaron thus propos'd to Moses -- Ah! cruel nymph -- Ah! how pleasant -- Ah! what pains -- Amidst the shades -- Amintas, to my grief I see -- Amintor, heedless of his flocks -- Ask me to love -- Bacchus is a pow'r divine -- Beneath a dark and melancholy grove -- Beware, poor shepherds -- Cease, anxious world -- Cease, o my sad soul -- Celia's fond -- Corinna is divinely fair -- Cupid, the slyest rogue alive -- Draw near, you lovers -- Farewell, all joys -- Farewell, ye rocks -- Fly swift, ye hours -- From silent shades -- Gentle shepherds -- He himself courts -- Hears not my Phillis -- High on a throne [Version A] -- High on a throne [Version B] -- Honours may crown -- How delightful's the life -- How I sigh -- How peaceful the days are -- I came, I saw -- I envy not a monarch's fate -- I fain would be free -- I love and I must -- I lov'd fair Celia -- I resolve against cringing -- I saw that you were grown so high -- I take no pleasure -- If grief has any pow'r -- If music be the food of love [First setting, version A, Z. 379A] -- If music be the food of love [First setting, version B, Z. 379B] -- If music be the food of love [Second setting, Z. 379C] -- If pray'rs and tears -- In Cloris all soft charms agree -- In vain we dissemble -- Incassum, Lesbia -- Leave these useless arts -- Let each gallant heart -- Let formal lovers -- Let us, kind Lesbia -- Love arms himself -- Love is now become a trade -- Love, thou canst hear -- Love's pow'r in my heart -- Lovely Albina -- More love or more disdain -- Musing on cares -- My heart, whenever you appear -- No, to what purpose -- No watch, dear Celia -- Not all my torments -- O solitude -- Oh! fair Cedaria -- Oh! how happy's he -- Olinda in the shades unseen -- On the brow of Richmond Hill -- Pastora's beauties when unblown -- Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it -- Phillis, talk no more -- Pious Celinda -- Rashly I swore -- Sawney is a bonny lad -- Scarce had the rising sun -- See how the fading glories -- She loves and she confesses too -- She that would gain -- She, who my poor heart possesses -- Since one poor view -- Since the pox -- Spite of the godhead -- Stripp'd of their green -- Sweet, be no longer sad -- Sweet tyraness -- Sylvia, now your scorn give over -- Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair -- The fatal hour -- They say you're angry -- This poet sings -- Through mournful shades -- Turn then thine eyes -- Urge me no more -- We now, my Thyrsis -- What a sad fate [Version A] -- What a sad fate [Version B] -- What can we -- What hope for us remains -- When first Amintas -- When first my shepherdess and I -- When her languishing eyes -- When I a lover -- When my Aemelia smiles -- When Strephon found -- When Thirsis did the splendid eye -- While Thirsis, wrapp'd -- Whilst Cynthia sang -- Who but a slave -- Who can behold -- Why so serious -- Ye happy swains -- Young Thirsis' fate.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695. Works. 1961, SEARCH BY SERIES TITLE OR CALL NUMBER M3 .P93.
General noteFor voice and continuo.
General noteFigured bass realized for harpsichord.
General noteThis volume contains all Purcell's secular solo songs which have no known association with the theatre. It also includes those songs which, though mainly for solo voice, end with a short duet section.
General noteIncludes preface, list of sources (pages xv-xx), and critical commentary (pages 276-316) in English.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageEnglish words.
Publisher number20263 Novello
Publisher number15 1025 08 Novello

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