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Theatre music

Title
Theatre music / Henry Purcell.
Author
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Publication
London, England : Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre ; [Place of publication not identified] : Allegro Imports [distributor], ℗1976- & lt;p1985>

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Additional Authors
  • Hogwood, Christopher.
  • Roberts, Joy (Joy A.)
  • Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
  • Academy of Ancient Music (1973- ) prf
Description
<3> audio discs; 12 in.
Series Statement
Florilegium series
Uniform Title
  • Incidental music
  • Florilegium series.
Alternative Title
  • Incidental music
  • Abdelazer.
  • Distressed innocence.
  • Married beau.
  • Gordian knot unty'd.
Subject
Incidental music
Note
  • Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre: 504, 590, 414 173-1.
  • Distributor from label on container (v. 7).
  • Durations on containers; program notes in English, French, and German and words of the songs, in part with French and German translations, inserted.
Contents
  • v. 1. Abdelazer ; Distressed innocence ; The married beau ; The Gordian knot untied.
  • v. 2 Bonduca, [or The British heroine] Z. 574. Overture [The 2 song-tunes, Z. 574/2 and 574/3, are omitted] ... Air ... Hornpipe ... Air ... Hornpipe ... Air ... Minuet ; Jack thou'rt a toper ; Hear us, great Rugwith ; Hear, ye Gods of Britain ; Sing, sing, ye Druids ; Divine Andante! (i.e. Andate!) president of war ; To arms ; Britons strike home ; O lead me to some peaceful gloom -- Sir Anthony Love, [or The rambling lady] Z. 588. Overture ; Pursuing beauty ; No more, sir, no more ; In vain Clemene ; Ground -- Circe, Z. 575. We must assemble by a sacrifice ; Their necessary aid you use ; Come every demon ; Lovers who to their first embraces go ; Magicians' dance ; Pluto, arise!
  • v. 3 Don Quixote.
  • v. 4 The virtuous wife, or Good luck at last : Z. 611. Overture ; Song tune ; Slow air ; Air ; Preludio ; Hornpipe ; Minuet ; Minuet ; (1st act tune) (13:15) -- The old bachelor : Z. 607. Overture ; Hornpipe ; Song, Thus to a ripe consenting maid ; Slow air ; Hornpipe ; Duet, As Amoret & Thyrsis ; Rondeau ; Menuet ; Boree ; March ; Jig (14:30) -- Amphitryon, or The two sosias : Z. 572. Overture ; Saraband ; Song, Celia that I once was blest ; Hornpipe ; Scotch tune ; Song, For Iris I sigh ; Air ; Minuet ; Hornpipe ; Duet, Fair Iris and her swain ; Bourée [The final "song-tune", Z. 572/N12, omitted.] (19:25).
  • v. 5 Double dealer. Richmond heiress. Rival sisters. Henry the Second. Tyrannic love.
  • v. 6. Theodosius ; The libertine ; The massacre of Paris ; Oedipus
  • v. 7 Overture in D minor (2:46) -- King Richard the Second (2:57) -- Sir Barnaby Whigg, or No wit like a women's (3:40) -- Sophonisba, or Hannibal's overthrow (1:46) -- The English lawyer (1:23) -- A fool's preferment, or The three dukes of Dunstable (8:48) -- The Indian emperor, or The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards (2:02) -- The Knight of Malta (1:28) -- A dialogue between Thyrsis and Daphne (3:34) -- The wife's excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves (6:23) -- Cleomenes, the Spartan hero (2:56) -- Regulus, or the faction of Carthage (3:11) -- The marriage-hater match'd (3:57).
  • Love triumphant (1:40) -- Rule a wife and have a wife (1:09) -- The female virtuosos (2:14) -- Epsom Wells (2:09) -- The maid's last prayer (8:14) -- Aureng-Zebe (2:31) -- The Canterbury guests (3:20) -- The fatal marriage (5:02) -- The Spanish friar (2:39) -- Pausanius, the betrayer of his country (5:35) -- The mock marriage (4:41) -- Oroonoko (3:11).
LCCN
76762351
OCLC
  • ocm03371958
  • 3371958
  • SCSB-1395850
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library