Fifteen songs and airs

Author(s)

• Purcell, Henry
• Cooper, Gerald M. (Gerald Melbourne)

Bibliographic Information

Fifteen songs and airs

Henry Purcell ; edited by Gerald M. Cooper

（Master vocal series）

Masters Music Pub., [19--]

For contralto of baritone

Printed Music（Accompaniment Reduced for Keyboard）

Other Title

15 songs and airs

Uniform Title

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695 -- Vocal music. Selections

Note

Excerpts from operas and incidental music

Acc. arr. for piano

English words

Contents of Works

• "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)

• NCID: BA26291999
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fl.
• Pages/Volumes: 1 vocal score (67 p.)
• Size: 31 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : M3.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano
  • LCSH : Music, Incidental -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23213503
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA00102450