MTU Library Catalogue

Fifteen songs and airs / Henry Purcell ; general editor, Gerald M. Cooper.

By: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695 [composer].
Contributor(s): Cooper, Gerald M. (Gerald Melbourne), 1892-1947 [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelScoreSeries: Purcell, Henry, Works: Publisher: London : Novello and Company Limited, [1939]Description: scores (67 pages) ; 28 cm.Content type: notated music Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Incidental music -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano | Songs (High voice) with piano -- ScoresDDC classification: S/016
Contents:
Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido and Aeneas) -- Dido's farewell: When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) -- Mystery's song: I am come to lock all fast (The fairy queen) -- When I have often heard young maids complaining (The fairy queen) -- Epithalamium: Thrice happy lovers (The fairy queen) -- The plaint: Oh! let me for ever weep (The fairy queen) -- Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice (The fairy queen) -- Venus's song: Fairest isle, all isles excelling (King Arthur) -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (The Indian queen) -- Amphitrite's song: Halcyon days, now wars are over (The tempest) -- Bonvica's song: Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom (Bonduca) -- Altisidora's song: From rosy bow'rs (Don Quixote) -- Retir'd from any mortal's sight (King Richard the Second) -- Thus to a ripe consenting maid (The old bachelor) -- Sweeter than roses (Pausanias)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00206146
Total holds: 0

Includes 3 pages of notes about the opera of Purcell's day and the individual songs in this volume.

For contralto or baritone, with realization of figured bass for keyboard instrument; occasional instrumental accompaniments have been arranged.

Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido and Aeneas) -- Dido's farewell: When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) -- Mystery's song: I am come to lock all fast (The fairy queen) -- When I have often heard young maids complaining (The fairy queen) -- Epithalamium: Thrice happy lovers (The fairy queen) -- The plaint: Oh! let me for ever weep (The fairy queen) -- Hark! how all things with one sound rejoice (The fairy queen) -- Venus's song: Fairest isle, all isles excelling (King Arthur) -- I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (The Indian queen) -- Amphitrite's song: Halcyon days, now wars are over (The tempest) -- Bonvica's song: Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom (Bonduca) -- Altisidora's song: From rosy bow'rs (Don Quixote) -- Retir'd from any mortal's sight (King Richard the Second) -- Thus to a ripe consenting maid (The old bachelor) -- Sweeter than roses (Pausanias)