Dramatic music Songs and instrumental music for the stage /
Purcell, Henry,1659-1695.
Spink, Ian.
Purcell Society.
London : Novello,
c1998.
For 1-3 solo voices, in part with chorus, and instruments.
Editorial and historical notes on p. ix-xxxix; critical commentary on p. 135-152.
Publisher's no.: Cat. No. NOV 151020.
Includes bibliographical references and index of first lines.
The fatal marriage. The danger is over, the battle is past ; I sigh'd, and own'd my love -- The female virtuosos. Love thou art best of human joys. -- A fool's preferment. I sigh'd and I pin'd ; There's nothing so fatal as woman ; Fled is my love, for ever gone ; 'Tis death alone can give me ease ; I'll mount to yon blue coelum ; I'll sail upon the dog-star ; Jenny, gin you can love ; If thou wilt give me back my love. -- The Gordian knot unty'd. First music : Chacone ; Second music : Aire ; Minuett ; Overture ; First act tune : Aire ; Second act tune : Rondeau minuett ; Third act tune : Aire ; Fourth act tune : Jigg. -- Henry the Second, King of England. In vain 'gainst love I strove. -- The Indian emperor. I look'd, and saw within the book of fate. -- King Richard the Second, the history of. Retir'd from [any] mortal's sight. -- The knight of Malta. At the close of the evening. --
(cont.): The libertine. Nymphs and shepherds ; Prepare, prepare now ghosts draw near ; To arms, to arms, heroic prince. -- Love triumphant. How happy's the husband. -- The maid's last prayer. Though you make no return to my passion ; No, no, resistance is but vain ; Tell me no more, I am deceiv'd. -- The marriage-hater match'd. How vile are the sordid intrigues of the town ; As soon as the chaos was made into form. -- The married beau. Overture ; Slow aire ; Hornpipe ; Aire ; Hornpipe ; Jigg ; Trumpet aire ; March ; Hornpipe on a ground ; See where repenting Celia lies. -- The massacre of Paris. Thy genius, lo! (2 settings). -- The mock-marriage. Oh! how you protest, and solemnly lie ; 'Twas within a furlong of Edinboro' town ; Man is for the woman made. -- Appendix. Songs in The Libertine from Folger MS W.b.533. Thou joy of all hearts ; Chloris, when you disperse ; Since liberty, nature for all has design'd ; Woman, who is by nature wild.
Incidental music
Songs with continuo.
Vocal music with continuo.
Instrumental music