Secular songs for single voice (Vol.25)

Description

Purcell Society Volume 25.

This 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. The first edition of this volume was prepared for the Purcell Society by Arthur Somervell, published in 1928. This new edition is not just a revision, but the outcome of a fresh examination of the sources. A new editorial continuo part, more suited to the harpsichord has also been provided.

Content :

• A Choir Of Bright Beauties
• A Hymn For St. Cecilia (Herbert Howells)
• A Pastoral Coronation Song
• A Pastoral Elegy On The Death Of Mr.John Playford
• A Thousand Sev'ral Ways
• Aaron Thus Propos'd To Moses
• Ah What Pains
• Ah! Cruel Nymph
• Amidst The Shades
• Amintas To My Grief I See
• Amintor, Heedless Of His Flocks
• An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mr.Thomas Farmer
• Anacreon's Defeat
• Ask Me To Love
• Bacchus Is A Pow'r Divine
• Bell Barr
• Beneath A Dark And Melancholy Grove
• Bess Of Bedlam
• Beware, Poor Shepherds
• 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
• 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 Lov'd Fair Celia
• I Love And I Must
• 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
• 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
• Lovely Albina
• Love's Pow'r In My Heart
• More Love Or More Disdain
• Musing On Cares
• My Heart, Whenever You Appear
• No Watch, Dear Celia
• No, To What Purpose
• Not All My Torments
• O Solitude
• Ode On The Queen
• Oh Fair Cedaria
• Oh How Happy's He
• Olinda In The Shades Unseen
• On The Brow Of Richmond Hill
• On The Death Of His Worthy Friend
• Pastora's Beauties When Unblown
• Phillis, I Can Ne'er Forgive It
• Phillis, Talk No More
• Pious Celinda
• Rashly I Swore
• Sappho's Complaint
• Sawney Is A Bonny Lad
• Scarce Had The Rising Sun
• Scotch Song
• See How The Fading Glories
• She Loves And She Confesses Too
• She That Would Gain
• She, Who My Poor Heart Possesses
• Sighs For Our Late Sovereign King Charles The Second
• Silvia
• Since One Poor View
• Since Teh Pox
• Solitude
• Spite Of The God Head
• Stripp'd Of Their Green
• Sweet Tyraness
• Sweet, Be No Longer Sad
• Sylvia Now Your Scorn Give Over
• Sylvia Tis True You're Fair
• The Caution
• The Concealment
• The Fatal Hour
• The Knotting Song
• The Loyal Delights Of A Contented Mind
• The Queen's Epicedium
• The Rich Rival
• The Storm
• The Thraldom
• The Triumps Of A Conquering Lover
• 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
• 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