The Purcell collection : 45 songs : realizations by Benjamin Britten / music by Henry Purcell ; the figured basses realized by Benjamin Britten ; the vocal parts edited by Peter Pears ; edited by Richard Walters.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
Other Authors: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 (arranger of music.), Pears, Peter, 1910-1986 (Editor), Walters, Richard (Editor)
Other title:Vocal music. Selections
Purcell realizations.
Format: Musical Score Book
Language:English
Published: [United States?] : Milwaukee, Wis. : Boosey & Hawkes ; Distributed by Hal Leonard Corp., ©2008.
Edition:Medium/low voice.
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Table of Contents:
  • Harmonia sacra. The Blessed Virgin's expostulation
  • Job's curse
  • Saul and the witch at Endor
  • Lord, what is man
  • We sing to him
  • Evening hymn
  • A Morning hymn
  • Alleluia
  • In the black dismal dungeon of despair. Odes and elegies. The Queen's epicedium. Orpheus Britannicus. I attempt from love's sickness to fly
  • I take no pleasure
  • Hark the ech'ing air
  • Take not a woman's anger ill
  • How blest are shepherds
  • Fairest Isle
  • If music be the food of love (3rd version)
  • Turn then thine eyes
  • Music for a while
  • Pious Celinda
  • I'll sail upon the dog-star
  • On the brow of Richmond Hill
  • Mad Bess
  • If music be the food of love (1st version)
  • There's not a swain of the plain
  • Not all my torments
  • Man is for the woman made
  • Sweeter than roses
  • Sound the trumpet
  • I spy Celia
  • Lost is my quiet
  • What can we poor females do?
  • No, resistance is but vain
  • Shepherd, leave decoying
  • Let sullen discord smile
  • Why should men quarrel?
  • So when the glittering Queen of Night
  • Thou tun'st this world
  • 'Tis holiday
  • Sound Fame thy brazen trumpet. Selections from stage works. From Dido and Aeneas. Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment ; Fear no danger to ensue ; But ere we this perform ; When I am laid in earth
  • From The Fairy queen. Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa.