Contains excerpts from musico-dramatic works in piano-vocal score, and songs; for low voice and piano.
"The folio edition of the Purcell Society was used as the original text ..."--Preface.
Pref. includes editorial remarks and performance notes.
English words.
1. We sing to Him -- 2. Music for a while -- 3. Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love -- 4. Thrice happy lovers -- 5. Sweeter than roses -- 6. What can we poor females do -- 7. Fairest isle -- 8. If music be the food of love (3rd version) -- 9. If music be the food of love (1st version) -- 10. I saw that you were grown so high -- 11. Man is for the woman made -- 12. From rosy bowers -- 13. Ah, Belinda, I am prest -- 14. Thy hand, Belinda! When I am laid in earth -- 15. What shall I do -- 16. Your awful voice -- 17. More love and more disdain -- 18. Since from my dear -- 19. The Blessed Virgin's expostulation -- 20. The fatal hour -- 21. I'll sail upon the Dog Star -- 22. Silvia, now your scorn -- 23. 'Tis nature's voice -- 24. Bess of Bedlam -- 25. Cease, o my sad soul -- 26. Strike the viol -- 27. Lord, what is man -- 28. Sound the trumpet -- 29. Hark! the ech'ing air -- 30. Not all my torments -- 31. O, lead me to some peaceful gloom -- 32. Sweet, be no longer sad -- 33. I attempt from love's sickness to fly -- 34. An evening hymn -- 35. There's not a swain on the plain -- 36. Nymphs and shepherds -- 37. Hark! how all things -- 38. Come all ye songsters -- 39. The Queen's Epicedium --40. The knotting song