Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Purcell

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable, Z. 571 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. I sigh'd, and I pin'd (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 2. There's nothing so fatal as Woman (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 3. Fled is my love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 4. 'Tis death alone (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 5. I'll mount to yon blue Coelum (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 6. I'll sail upon the Dog-star (Text: Thomas d'Urfey after John Fletcher) CAT CHI
• no. 7. Jenny, 'gin you can love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 8. If thou wilt give me back my love (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• Aureng-Zebe -- or The Great Mogul, Z. 573 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. I see, she flies me (Text: John Dryden) SPA
• Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Z. 321
• Celebrate this festival (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester, Z. 342
• no. 1. Overture
• no. 2. Who can from joy refrain, this gay (Text: Nahum Tate)
• no. 3. A Prince of glorious race descended (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
• no. 4. The Father brave as e’er was Dane (Text: Nahum Tate)
• no. 5. The Graces in his Mother shine (Text: Nahum Tate)
• no. 6. Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum (Text: Nahum Tate)
• no. 7. If now he burns with noble flame (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Bonduca - or - The British Heroine, Z. 574 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom (Text: John Fletcher) FRE
• Come, ye Sons of Art, Z. 323
• no. 2. Come, ye Sons of Art (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• no. 3. Sound the trumpet (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
• no. 5. Strike the viol (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT FRE
• no. 6. The Honour of a Jubilee (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• no. 7. Bid the Virtues (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• no. 8. These are the sacred charms (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• no. 9. See Nature, rejoicing (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 [opera]
• no. 37. Dido's Lament (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT FRE ITA SPA
• Don Quixote, Z. 578 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 3. Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 9. From rosy bow'rs (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
• Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia, Z. 328
• no. 1. [No title]
• no. 2. Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! fill ev'ry Heart! (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 3. Hark! hark! each Tree its silence breaks (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 4. Tis Nature's voice (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 5. Soul of the World (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 6. Thou tun'st this world (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 7. With that sublime celestial lay (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 8. Wondrous machine! (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 9. The airy violin (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 10. In vain the am'rous flute (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 11. The fife and all the harmony of war (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 12. Let these among themselves contest (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• no. 13. Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail to thee (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Harmonia Sacra [multi-composer]
• An evening hymn, composed by Henry Purcell (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• My op'ning eyes are purg'd, composed by Henry Purcell (Text: Anonymous)
• The blessed Virgin's expostulation, composed by Henry Purcell (Text: Nahum Tate)
• The night is come, composed by Henry Purcell
• Henry the Second, King of England, Z. 580 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. In vain 'gainst Love, in vain I strove (Text: John Bancroft; William Mountfort)
• King Arthur or The British Worthy [a play - incidental music]
• no. . For love ev'ry creature (Text: John Dryden)
• no. 8. How blest are shepherds (Text: John Dryden) CAT
• no. 9. Come if you dare (Text: John Dryden)
• no. 16. Shepherd, leave decoying (Text: John Dryden) CAT
• no. 20. What power art thou (Text: John Dryden) FRE
• no. 35a. You say 'tis Love (Text: John Dryden)
• no. 38. Fairest Isle (Text: John Dryden) CAT CHI FRE GER SPA
• Love Triumphant, Z. 582 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. How happy's the husband (Text: William Congreve)
• Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, Z. 329
• no. 1. Laudate Ceciliam, in voce et organo (Text: Anonymous) ENG
• no. 2. Modulemini psalmum novum (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. Symphony
• no. 4. Dicite Virgini, canite martyri (Text: Anonymous)
• O Give Thanks, Z. 33
• That I may see (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Oroonoko, Z. 584 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 3. Celemene (Text: Thomas Southerne)
• Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z. 585 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. Sweeter than roses (Text: Richard Norton) CAT FRE
• Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z. 627
• no. ?. Let the Graces (Text: Thomas Betterton after John Fletcher)
• no. 18. What shall I do (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher)
• no. 31b. Since from my dear Astrea's sight (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) FRE
• no. 33. Still I'm wishing (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher)
• no. 35. Tell me why (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher)
• Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z. 587 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. There's not a swain (Text: John Fletcher) CAT GER
• The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
• no. 7. Come all ye songsters (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• no. 13. Secresy's Song (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
• no. 23. When I have often heard young maids complaining (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• no. 39bc. An Epithalamium (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE ITA
• no. 40. The plaint (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
• no. 47. Hark! how all things (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• no. 48. Hark! now the echoing Air (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• no. 53. Turn then thine eyes upon those glories there (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• The Fatal Marriage -or- The Innocent Adultery, Z. 595 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. The danger is over (Text: Thomas Southerne)
• no. 2. I sigh'd and owned my love
• The Female Vertuosos, Z. 596 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. Love, thou art best (Text: Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea)
• The History of King Richard the Second, Z. 581 [stage composition]
• no. 1. Retir'd from any mortal's sight (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
• The Indian Emperor, Z. 598 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. I look'd and saw within (Text: John Dryden)
• The Indian Queen, Z. 630 [a play - incidental music]
• no. . Let us wander (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) GER
• no. . I attempt from Love's sickness to fly (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) CAT FRE GER
• no. 4c. Why should men quarrel (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
• no. 15. Seek not to know (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
• no. 19. They tell us that your mighty powers (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
• The Libertine -or- The Libertine Destroyed, Z. 600 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. Nymphs and Shepherds (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• no. 2. Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• no. 3. To arms, Heroick Prince
• The Maid's Last Prayer -or- Any Rather Than Fail, Z. 601 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. Though you make no return (Text: Thomas Southerne)
• no. 2. No, resistance is but vain (Text: Anthony Henly) CAT
• no. 3. Tell me no more (Text: William Congreve)
• The Marriage-hater Match'd, Z. 602 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. As soon as the chaos (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• no. 2. How vile are the Sordid Intrigues (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• The Married Beau, Z. 603 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. See! where repenting Celia lyes (Text: John Crowne)
• The Massacre of Paris, Z. 604 [a play - incidental music]
• Thy Genius, lo (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
• The Mock Marriage [a play - incidental music]
• no. 1. Oh! how you protest (Text: Thomas Scott)
• Theodosius - or - The Force of Love, Z. 606 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 8. Hail to the myrtle shade (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
• The Rival Sisters -or- The Violence of Love, Z. 609
• no. 10. Celia has a thousand charms (Text: Robert Gould) SPA
• no. 11. Take not a woman's anger ill (Text: Robert Gould) CAT
• The Tempest or The Enchanted Island, Z. 631
• no. 10. Dear Pretty Youth (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• no. 14. Your Awful Voice (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• no. 15. Halcyon days (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Timon of Athens, Z. 632 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 3. Love in their little veins inspires (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• no. 11. Love quickly is pall'd (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Tyrannic Love -or- The Royal Martyr, Z. 613 [a play - incidental music]
• no. 2. Ah! how sweet it is to love (Text: John Dryden)
• Welcome Song for Charles II, Z. 326
• no. 1. Symphony
• no. 2. From those serene and rapturous joys (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• no. 3. Behold th' indulgent Prince is come (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• no. 4. Not with an Helmet or a glitt'ring Spear (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• no. 5. Welcome as soft refreshing show'rs (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• no. 6. From those serene and rapturous joys (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• no. 7. Nor does the Sun more comfort bring (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• no. 8. With trumpets and shouts we receive the World's Wonder (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339
• Here the deities approve (Text: Christopher Fishburn) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A grasshopper and a fly, Z. 481 (Text: Anonymous) HEB
• Ah! cruel nymph, Z. 352
• Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z. 353 (Text: John Dryden) GER
• Ah! how sweet it is to love, Z. 613 no. 2 (in Tyrannic Love -or- The Royal Martyr) (Text: John Dryden)
• Amidst the shades, Z. 355
• Amintas, to my grief I see, Z. 356
• Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z. 357
• An Epithalamium, Z. 629 no. 39bc (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE ITA
• An evening hymn on a ground, Z. 193 (in Harmonia Sacra) (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• An evening hymn, Z. 193 (in Harmonia Sacra) (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln) FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• A Prince of glorious race descended, Z. 342 no. 3 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester) (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
• As Amoret and Thyrsis lay, Z. 607 no. 11 (Text: William Congreve)
• A Scotch tune, Z. 605 no. 2 (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
• Ask me to love no more, Z. 358
• As soon as the chaos, Z. 602 no. 1 (in The Marriage-hater Match'd) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z. 359
• Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z. 360
• Behold th' indulgent Prince is come, Z. 326 no. 3 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z. 461
• Bess of Bedlam, Z. 370
• Beware, poor shepherds, Z. 361
• Be welcome then, great Sir
• Bid the Virtues, Z. 323 no. 7 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Z. 331 (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir)
• By beauteous softness
• Catch, Z. 244
• Cease, anxious world, Z. 362 (Text: George Etheredge, Sir)
• Cease, o my sad Soul, Z. 363 (Text: C. Webbe)
• Celebrate this festival, Z. 321 (in Birthday Ode for Queen Mary) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Celemene, Z. 584 (in Oroonoko) (Text: Thomas Southerne)
• Celia has a thousand charms, Z. 609 no. 10 (in The Rival Sisters -or- The Violence of Love) (Text: Robert Gould) SPA
• Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z. 364 (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux)
• Close thine eyes and sleep secure, Z. 184
• Come all ye songsters, Z. 629 no. 7 (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• Come if you dare, Z. 628 no. 9 (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden)
• Come, ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 no. 2 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• Corinna is divinely fair, Z. 365
• Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z. 367 (Text: Anonymous after Theocritus) FRE FRE
• Dear Pretty Youth, Z. 631 no. 10 (in The Tempest or The Enchanted Island) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Dicite Virgini, canite martyri, Z. 329 no. 4 (in Ode for St. Cecilia's Day) (Text: Anonymous)
• Dido's Lament, Z. 626 no. 37 (in Dido and Aeneas) (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT FRE ITA SPA
• Draw near, you lovers, Z. 462 (Text: Thomas Stanley)
• Dulcibella, whene'er I sue for a kiss, Z. 485 (Text: A Henley)
• Elegy upon the Death of Queen Mary, Z. 504 (Text: Henry Parker) FRE
• Fairest Isle, Z. 628 (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden) CAT CHI FRE GER SPA
• Fair Iris and her swain, Z. 572 no. 11 (Text: John Dryden)
• Farewell all joys, Z. 368 (Text: Anonymous after Florimond de Remond)
• Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z. 463 (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• Five reasons (Text: Henry Aldrich after Henry Aldrich)
• Fled is my love, Z. 571 no. 3 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• Fly swift, ye hours, Z. 369
• For love ev'ry creature, Z. 628 (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden)
• From rosy bow'rs, Z. 578 no. 9 (in Don Quixote) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
• From silent shades, Z. 370
• From those serene and rapturous joys, Z. 326 no. 2 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• From those serene and rapturous joys, Z. 326 no. 6 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• Go tell Amynta, gentle swain, Z. 489 (Text: John Dryden)
• Great God, and just (A penitential hymn), Z. 186 (Text: Jeremiah Taylor, Bishop)
• Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! fill ev'ry Heart!, Z. 328 no. 2 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail to thee, Z. 328 no. 13 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Hail to the myrtle shade, Z. 606 no. 8 (in Theodosius - or - The Force of Love) (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
• Halcyon days, Z. 631 no. 15 (in The Tempest or The Enchanted Island) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Hark, Damon, hark!, Z. 541 (Text: Anonymous)
• Hark! hark! each Tree its silence breaks, Z. 328 no. 3 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Hark! how all things, Z. 629 no. 47 (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• Hark how the wild musicians sing, Z. 542 (Text: Anonymous)
• Hark! now the echoing Air, Z. 629 no. 48 (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z. 15 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
• He himself courts his own ruin, Z. 372
• Here the deities approve, Z. 339 (in Welcome to all the pleasures) (Text: Christopher Fishburn) FRE
• High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z. 465 (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• How blest are shepherds (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden) CAT
• How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z. 373 (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• How happy's the husband, Z. 582 no. 1 (in Love Triumphant) (Text: William Congreve)
• How have I stray'd, my God?, Z. 188 (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
• How I sigh, Z. 374
• How long, great God, Z. 189 (Text: John Norris)
• How vile are the Sordid Intrigues, Z. 602 no. 2 (in The Marriage-hater Match'd) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• I attempt from Love's sickness to fly, Z. 630 (in The Indian Queen) (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) CAT FRE GER
• I came, I saw, and was undone, Z. 375 (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• If ever I more riches did desire, Z. 544 (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z. 378
• If music be the food of love, Z. 379 (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
• If now he burns with noble flame, Z. 342 no. 7 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• If pray'rs and tears, Z. 380
• If thou wilt give me back my love, Z. 571 no. 8 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• I'll mount to yon blue Coelum, Z. 571 no. 5 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• I'll sail upon the Dog-star, Z. 571 no. 6 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey after John Fletcher) CAT CHI
• I look'd and saw within, Z. 598 no. 1 (in The Indian Emperor) (Text: John Dryden)
• I love and I must, Z. 382
• I loved fair Celia, Z. 381
• In all our Cinthia's shining sphere, Z. 496 (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas, Z. 383 (Text: R. Herbert)
• In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z. 384 (Text: John Howe)
• In some kind dream, Z. 497 (Text: George Etheredge, Sir) HEB
• In the black dismal dungeon of despair, Z. 190 (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
• In the midst of life we are in death, Z. 17a (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE SPA
• In vain 'gainst Love, in vain I strove, Z. 580 no. 1 (in Henry the Second, King of England) (Text: John Bancroft; William Mountfort)
• In vain the am'rous flute, Z. 328 no. 10 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• In vain we dissemble, Z. 385
• I resolve against cringing and whining, Z. 386
• I saw that you were grown so high, Z. 387
• I see, she flies me, Z. 573 no. 1 (in Aureng-Zebe -- or The Great Mogul) (Text: John Dryden) SPA
• I sigh'd, and I pin'd, Z. 571 no. 1 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• I sigh'd and owned my love, Z. 595 no. 2 (in The Fatal Marriage -or- The Innocent Adultery)
• I spy Celia, Celia eyes me, Z. 499
• I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z. 388 (Text: ? Chamberlaine, Mrs.)
• I was glad when they said unto me [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT LAT FRE ENG FIN GER
• Jenny, 'gin you can love, Z. 571 no. 7 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• Laudate Ceciliam, in voce et organo, Z. 329 no. 1 (in Ode for St. Cecilia's Day) (Text: Anonymous) ENG
• Let each gallant heart, Z. 390 (Text: John Turner)
• Let formal lovers still pursue, Z. 391
• Let the dreadful engines, Z. 578 no. 3 (in Don Quixote) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• Let the Graces, Z. 627 no. ? (in Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian) (Text: Thomas Betterton after John Fletcher)
• Let the night perish (Job's Curse), Z. 191 (Text: Jeremiah Taylor, Bishop)
• Let these among themselves contest, Z. 328 no. 12 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z. 466 (Text: Anonymous after Gaius Valerius Catullus) FRE SPA
• Let us wander, Z. 630 (in The Indian Queen) (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) GER
• Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry?, Z. 25 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Lord, what is Man, Z. 192 (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
• Lost is my quiet, Z. 502 GER HEB
• Love and despair, Z. 492
• Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z. 392 (Text: Matthew Prior)
• Love in their little veins inspires, Z. 632 no. 3 (in Timon of Athens) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Love is now become a trade, Z. 393
• Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z. 394
• Love quickly is pall'd, Z. 632 no. 11 (in Timon of Athens) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z. 395
• Love, thou art best, Z. 596 no. 1 (in The Female Vertuosos) (Text: Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea)
• Love, thou can'st hear, Z. 396 (Text: Robert Howard, Sir)
• Man is for the woman made, Z. 605 no. 3 (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux; Thomas Scott) CAT FRE
• Man that is born of a woman, Z. 27 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE SPA
• Modulemini psalmum novum, Z. 329 no. 2 (in Ode for St. Cecilia's Day) (Text: Anonymous)
• More love or more disdain I crave, Z. 397 (Text: C. Webbe)
• Music for a while, Z. 583 no. 2 (Text: John Dryden; Nathaniel Lee) CAT FRE
• Musing on cares, Z. 467
• My beloved spake, Z. 28 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE FRE LAT RUS
• My heart, whenever you appear, Z. 399
• My op'ning eyes are purg'd, ZD. 72 (in Harmonia Sacra) (Text: Anonymous)
• My song shall be alway, Z. 31 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• Nor does the Sun more comfort bring, Z. 326 no. 7 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• No, resistance is but vain, Z. 601 no. 2 (in The Maid's Last Prayer -or- Any Rather Than Fail) (Text: Anthony Henly) CAT
• Not all my torments can your pity move, Z. 400 CAT FRE
• No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z. 468 (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• Not with an Helmet or a glitt'ring Spear, Z. 326 no. 4 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• Nymphs and shepherds [multi-text setting] (Text: Rothery, Shadwell)
• Nymphs and Shepherds, Z. 600 no. 1 (in The Libertine -or- The Libertine Destroyed) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z. 334 (Text: Anonymous)
• O! fair Cedaria, Z. 402
• O God, thou art my God, Z. 35 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• Oh! how you protest, Z. 605 no. 1 (in The Mock Marriage) (Text: Thomas Scott)
• Oh! what a scene does entertain my sight, Z. 506 (Text: Anonymous)
• O lead me to some peaceful gloom, Z. 574 no. 17 (in Bonduca - or - The British Heroine) (Text: John Fletcher) FRE
• Olinda in the shades unseen, Z. 404
• One, two, three
• On the brow of Richmond Hill, Z. 405 (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) CAT
• O sing unto the Lord, Z. 44 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406 (Text: Katherine Philips after Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant) CAT GER
• Overture, Z. 342 no. 1 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester)
• Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr. John Playford, Z. 464 (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Pastora's beauties when unblown, Z. 407
• Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z. 408
• Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z. 409
• Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z. 410 (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
• Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near, Z. 600 no. 2 (in The Libertine -or- The Libertine Destroyed) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• Raise, raise the voice, Z. 334 (Text: Anonymous)
• Rashly I swore I would disown, Z. 411
• Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z. 50 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z. 581 no. 1 (in The History of King Richard the Second) (Text: Nahum Tate) FRE
• Rondo, Z. 630 (in The Indian Queen) (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir) CAT FRE GER
• Sawney is a bonny lad, Z. 412 (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux) ITA
• Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z. 469
• Secresy's Song, Z. 629 no. 13 (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
• See how the fading glories of the year, Z. 470
• Seek not to know, Z. 630 no. 15 (in The Indian Queen) (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
• See Nature, rejoicing, Z. 323 no. 9 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• See! where repenting Celia lyes, Z. 603 no. 1 (in The Married Beau) (Text: John Crowne)
• See where she sits (Weeping), Z. 508 (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• She loves and she confesses, too (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• Shepherd, leave decoying, Z. 628 no. 16 (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden) CAT
• Shepherd, shepherd leave decoying, Z. 628 (Text: John Dryden)
• She that would gain a faithful lover, Z. 414 (Text: Lady E. M.)
• She, who my poor heart possesses, Z. 415
• Since from my dear Astrea's sight, Z. 627 no. 31b (in Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian) (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher) FRE
• Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z. 416
• Since the pox or the plague, Z. 471
• Sleep, Adam, sleep, Z. 195 GER
• Soul of the World, Z. 328 no. 5 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Sound the Trumpet and beat the warlike Drum, Z. 342 no. 6 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Sound the trumpet, Z. 335 (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
• Sound the trumpet, Z. 323 no. 3 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) CAT DUT FRE GER
• Spite of the godhead, Z. 417 (Text: Anne Wharton)
• Still I'm wishing, Z. 627 no. 33 (in Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian) (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher)
• Strike the viol, Z. 323 no. 5 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT FRE
• Strike the Viol (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT FRE
• Stript of their green our Groves appear, Z. 444 (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux)
• Sweet, be no longer sad, Z. 418 (Text: C. Webbe)
• Sweeter than roses, Z. 585 no. 1 (in Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country) (Text: Richard Norton) CAT FRE
• Sweetness of nature (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir)
• Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z. 420
• Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z. 512
• Symphony, Z. 326 no. 1 (in Welcome Song for Charles II)
• Symphony, Z. 329 no. 3 (in Ode for St. Cecilia's Day)
• Symphony, Z. 328 no. 1 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia)
• Take not a woman's anger ill, Z. 609 no. 11 (in The Rival Sisters -or- The Violence of Love) (Text: Robert Gould) CAT
• Tell me no more, Z. 601 no. 3 (in The Maid's Last Prayer -or- Any Rather Than Fail) (Text: William Congreve)
• Tell me why, Z. 627 no. 35 (in Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian) (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher)
• That I may see, Z. 33 (in O Give Thanks) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• The airy violin, Z. 328 no. 9 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• The blessed Virgin's expostulation, Z. 196 (in Harmonia Sacra) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• The danger is over, Z. 595 no. 1 (in The Fatal Marriage -or- The Innocent Adultery) (Text: Thomas Southerne)
• The earth trembled, Z. 197 (Text: Francis Quarles)
• The fatal hour comes on apace, Z. 421
• The Father brave as e’er was Dane, Z. 342 no. 4 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• The fife and all the harmony of war, Z. 328 no. 11 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• The Graces in his Mother shine, Z. 342 no. 5 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• The Honour of a Jubilee, Z. 323 no. 6 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• The knotting song, Z. 371 (Text: Charles Sedley, Sir) GER
• The message (Text: Anonymous) GER
• The night is come, ZD. 77 (in Harmonia Sacra)
• The Owl Is Abroad (Text: Ben Jonson)
• The plaint, Z. 629 no. 40 (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE
• There's not a swain, Z. 587 no. 1 (in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife) (Text: John Fletcher) CAT GER
• There's nothing so fatal as Woman, Z. 571 no. 2 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• These are the sacred charms, Z. 323 no. 8 (in Come, ye Sons of Art) (Text: Nahum Tate) DUT
• They say you're angry, Z. 422 (Text: Abraham Cowley)
• They tell us that your mighty powers, Z. 630 no. 19 (in The Indian Queen) (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
• This poet sings the Trojan wars, Z. 423 (Text: Anonymous after Anacreon)
• Though you make no return, Z. 601 no. 1 (in The Maid's Last Prayer -or- Any Rather Than Fail) (Text: Thomas Southerne)
• Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, Z. 58b (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) SPA
• Thou knowest Lord, Z. 58 [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) SPA FRE ENG
• Thou tun'st this world, Z. 328 no. 6 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Thou wakeful shepherd (A morning hymn), Z. 198 (Text: William Fuller, Dr., Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
• Thrice happy lovers, Z. 629 no. 39bc (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle) FRE ITA
• Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z. 424 (Text: Richard Duke)
• Thy Genius, lo, Z. 604 (in The Massacre of Paris) (Text: Nathaniel Lee)
• 'Tis death alone, Z. 571 no. 4 (in A Fool's Preferment -or- The Three Dukes of Dunstable) (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• Tis Nature's voice, Z. 328 no. 4 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• To arms, Heroick Prince, Z. 600 no. 3 (in The Libertine -or- The Libertine Destroyed)
• Turn then thine eyes upon those glories there (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• 'Twas within a furlong of Edinborough Town, Z. 605 no. 2 (Text: Thomas d'Urfey) FRE
• Under this stone, Z. 286
• Urge me no more, Z. 426 (Text: Anonymous)
• Welcome as soft refreshing show'rs, Z. 326 no. 5 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• We sing to Him, Z. 199 (Text: Nathaniel Ingelo)
• What a sad fate is mine, Z. 428
• What can we poor females do?, Z. 429 CAT GER HEB
• What hope for us remains now he is gone?, Z. 472 (Text: Anonymous)
• What power art thou, Z. 628 no. 20 (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden) FRE
• What shall I do, Z. 627 no. 18 (in Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian) (Text: Thomas Betterton; Philip Massinger after John Fletcher)
• When first Amintas sued for a kiss, Z. 430 (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
• When first my shepherdess and I, Z. 431
• When her languishing eyes said "Love!", Z. 432
• When I have often heard young maids complaining, Z. 629 no. 23 (in The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream) (Text: Elkanah Settle)
• When my Aemelia smiles, Z. 434
• When Myra sings, we seek th'enchanting sound, Z. 521 (Text: George Granville, Lord Lansdowne) CAT
• When Strephon found his passion vain, Z. 435
• While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z. 437
• Whilst Cynthia sung, Z. 438
• Whilst I with grief, Z. 610 (Text: John Dryden)
• Who but a slave can well express, Z. 440
• Who can behold Florella's charms, Z. 441 (Text: Anonymous)
• Who can from joy refrain, this gay, Z. 342 no. 2 (in Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester) (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Why, my Daphne, why complaining?, Z. 525
• Why should men quarrel, Z. 630 no. 4c (in The Indian Queen) (Text: John Dryden; Robert Howard, Sir)
• With sick and famish'd eyes, Z. 200 (Text: George Herbert)
• With that sublime celestial lay, Z. 328 no. 7 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• With trumpets and shouts we receive the World's Wonder, Z. 326 no. 8 (in Welcome Song for Charles II) (Text: Thomas Flatman)
• Wondrous machine!, Z. 328 no. 8 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia) (Text: Nicholas Brady)
• Ye happy swains, Z. 443
• Ye tuneful Muses, Z. 344
• Young Thirsis' fate, Z. 473 (Text: Nahum Tate)
• Your Awful Voice, Z. 631 no. 14 (in The Tempest or The Enchanted Island) (Text: Thomas Shadwell)
• You say 'tis Love, Z. 628 no. 35a (in King Arthur or The British Worthy) (Text: John Dryden)
• [No Title], Z. 328 no. 1 (in Hail, bright Cecilia - or Ode to St. Cecilia)

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