18 Canzonets (Travers, John)

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No.17. Fair and Ugly

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 * Work Title=18 Canzonets
 * Alternative Title=Eighteen Canzonets for Two, and three Voices; (The Words chiefly by Matthew Prior, Esq.) Set to Musick by John Travers, Organist of his Majesty's Chapel Royal and of St. Paul Covent Garden
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 * Number of Movements/Sections=18 Canzonets
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 * Year of First Publication=1746
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 * Language=English
 * Piece Style=Baroque
 * Instrumentation=voices, continuo
 * Tags=canzonets ; sop ten bc ; alt ten bc ; alt bass bc ; 2sop bc ; sop bass bc ; alt ten bass bc ; en


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Contents

 * 1) Proem. I, like a Bee, with Toil and Pain; ST, bc
 * 2) The Praise of Bacchus. Whilst our Joys in Wine we raise; AT, bc
 * 3) The Advice of Venus (Matthew Prior). Thus to the Muses spoke the Cyprian Dame; AT, bc
 * 4) An Epigram (Matthew Prior). When Bibo thought fit from the World to retreat; AB, bc
 * 5) On his own Birthday (Matthew Prior). I, my Dear, was born today, so all my Jolly Comrades say; TB, bc
 * 6) Chanson Françoise (Translated by Matthew Prior). Why thus from the Plain does my Shepherdess rove; SS, bc
 * 7) An Epigram (Matthew Prior). Says Pontius, in Rage, contradicting his Wife; AB, bc
 * 8) To Fortune (Matthew Prior). Whilst I, in Prison, on a Court look down; AT, bc
 * 9) Advice to Leonora (Matthew Prior). Cease, Leonora, cease to mourn, thy faithful Strephon will return; ST, bc
 * 10) An Epigram (Matthew Prior). Poor Hall caught his Death standing under a Spout; AT, bc
 * 11) Friendship (Matthew Prior). Reading ends in melancholy; AB, bc
 * 12) [Canzonet] (Matthew Prior). Haste, my Nanette, my lovely Maid; SB, bc
 * 13) Cupid's Promise (Matthew Prior). Soft Cupid, wanton am'rous Boy; ATB, bc
 * 14) Advice to Delius. He is not numbered with the Blest; ATB, bc
 * 15) Love's Security. Beauty should please but not ensnare; ATB, bc
 * 16) The Resolution. Pleasure's enchanted Ground I'll tread; ATB, bc
 * 17) (A Translation). Fair and Ugly, False and True; ATB, bc
 * 18) The old Bacchanal. Old I am, yet can (I think) those that younger are out-drink; ATB, bc


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