An extraordinary collection of songs by the undisputed master of the English Baroque, Henry Purcell. All forty of the songs within this volume are for Low Voice and Piano and demonstrate his unique ability to marry dramatictexts and verses with delightful examples of English counterpoint. This volume has been edited and with realisations of the figured bass, by Sergius Kagen.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 4,5,6,7,8 & perfomer's certificate)

Contents

• Ah! How Pleasant 'tis Love
• Ah, Belinda, I Am Prest
• An Evening Hymn
• Bess Of Bedlam
• Cease, O My Sad Soul
• Come All Ye Songsters
• Fairest Isle
• From Rosy Bowers
• Hark! How All Things
• Hark! The Ech'ing Air
• I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly
• I Saw You Were Grown So High
• If Music Be the Food of Love
• I'll Sail Upon The Dog Star
• Lord, What Is Man
• Man Is For The Woman Made
• More Love And More Disdain
• Music For A While
• Not All My Torments
• Nymphs And Shepherds
• O, Lead Me To Some Peaceful Gloom
• Silvia Now Your Scorn
• Since From My Dear
• Sound the Trumpet
• Strike the Viol
• Sweet, Be No Longer Sad
• Sweeter Than Roses
• The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
• The Fatal Hour
• The Knotting Song
• The Queen's Epicedium
• There's Not a Swain on the Plain
• Thrice Happy Lovers
• Thy Hand, Belinda! When I Am Laid In Earth
• 'Tis Nature's Voice
• We Sing To Him
• What Can We Poor Females Do
• What Shall I Do?
• Your Awful Voice