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The Purcell collection : realizations by Benjamin Britten
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- 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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- English
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- Medium/low voice
- [United States?] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Distributed by Hal Leonard, [2008]
- ©2008
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- 1 score (xxiii, 235 pages) ; 31 cm
- OCLC
- ocn150371656
- 45 songs, most for solo voice and piano, some for 2, 3, or 4 voices. Includes 6 piano reductions of Britten's original orchestration and 2 realizations for continuo.
- Includes index.
- Includes editorial preface, a biography of Purcell, descriptions of the songs, and an essay by Britten, "On realizing the continuo in Purcell's songs."
- Harmonia sacra. The Blessed Virgin's expostulation ; Job's curse ; Saul and the witch at Endor -- Three divine hymns. Lord, what is man ; We sing to him ; Evening hymn -- Two divine hymns and alleluia. A morning hymn ; Alleluia ; In the black dismal dungeon of despair -- Odes and Elegies. The queen's epicedium -- Orpheus Britannicus. Five songs. 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 -- Seven songs. 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 -- Six songs. 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 -- Six duets. Sound the trumpet ; I spy Celia ; Lost is my quiet ; What can we poor females do? ; No, resistance is but vain ; Shepherd, leave decoying -- Suite of songs from Orpheus Britannicus. 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. Dido and Aeneas. Shake the cloud from off your brow ; Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment ; Fear no danger to ensue ; Persue thy conquest, love ; But ere we this perform ; Thanks to these lonesome vales ; Oft she visits this lov'd mountain ; Come away, fellow sailors ; When I am laid in earth -- The fairy queen. Dialogue of Corydon and Mopsa