Reliquary of English Song (Various)

		First Publication 1915 Genre Categories Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; English language

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 Volume 1 (1250-1700)
*#30820 - 5.47MB, 136 pp. -  4.7/10 2 4 6 8 10 (3) - V/V/C - 7435x⇩

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Editor:

Charles John Vincent (1852-1934) and
T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953), arrangements and harmonization
Frank Hunter Potter (1851-1932), editor

Publisher Info.:

New York: G. Schirmer, 1915

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Includes Sumer is icumen in (with facsimile ca. 1250), Barbara Allen, Dido’s Lament, Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Tobacco's but an Indian weed, and other works by Anonymous, Lawes (both Henry and William), Dowland, Morley, Purcell (both Daniel and Henry), and others. The editors’ brief historical Notes for each piece are informative and engaging. Some of the songs’ original lyrics, however, are bowdlerized.

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General Information

Work Title	Reliquary of English Song, 1250-1700
Alternative Title

Composer	Various
First Publication	1915
Language	English
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	Voice, Piano

Misc. Comments

Contents

Volume 1

1. About the sweet bag of a bee (Henry Lawes)
2. Ah! the syghes that come fro' my heart
3. Arise, ye subterranean winds (Henry Purcell)
4. Awake, sweet love (Dowland)
5. Barbara Allen
6. Beauty and Love (Henry Lawes)
7. The British Grenadiers
8. Cease, 0 my sad soul (Henry Purcell)
9. Come again, sweet love (Dowland)
10. Come, lovely Phillis (Henry Lawes)
11. Dido's Lament (Henry Purcell)
12. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (William Lawes)
13. Have you seen but a white lily grow
14. Hence, hence with your trifling deity (Henry Purcell)
15. How happy art thou (Henry Lawes)
16. The Hunt is up
17. I attempt from love's sickness to fly (Henry Purcell)
18. I do confess (Henry Lawes)
19. If the quick spirit of your eye (Henry Lawes)
20. I live not where I love
21. I pass all my hours (Pelham Humphrey)
22. I prethee, send me back my heart (Henry Lawes)
23. It was a lover and his lass (Morley)
24. The Knotting Song (Henry Purcell)
25. Let us dance, let us sing (Henry Purcell)
26. Lilliburlero (Henry Purcell)
27. Little love serves my turn (Henry Lawes)
28. Love will find out the way
29. Next, Winter comes slowly (Henry Purcell)
30. Now is the month of maying (Morley)
31. Now, O now I needs must part (Dowland)
32. Nymphs and Shepherds (Henry Purcell)
33. Once I loved a maiden fair
34. Pastime with good company
35. Phillida and Coridon
36. Phillis, on the new-made hay
37. Phillis, talk not more of passion (Daniel Purcell)
38. Phillis, why should we delay (Henry Lawes)
39. Sally in Our Alley
40. The Self-Banished
41. Shepherd, shepherd, leave decoying (Henry Purcell)
42. Sumer is icumen in
43. The Three Ravens
44. Tobacco's but an Indian weed
45. Wert thou more fairer than thou art
46. What if a day
47. When I have often heard (Henry Purcell)
48. When the King enjoys his own again
49. Why should'st thou sweare I am forsworn (King Charles I)
50. The Willow Song
51. Wronge not, deare Empress of my hearte
52. You Gentlemen of England