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of PurcellCatches. Songs.


  • Z351
  • Song (1688)
    Aaron thus propos'd to Moses
    possibly not by Purcell
  • Z352
  • Song
    Ah! Cruel nymph, you give despair
  • Z353
  • Song (1688)
    Ah! how pleasant 'tis to love
  • Z354
  • Song
    Ah! what pains, what racking thoughts [Congreve]
    inc, bc lost
  • Z482
  • Song
    Alas, how barbarous we are [K Philips] {SB}
  • Z355
  • Song (1687)
    Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams
  • Z356
  • Song (1679)
    Amintas, to my grief I see
  • Z357
  • Song (1681)
    Amintor, heedless of his flocks
  • Z241
  • Catch (1686)
    An ape, a lion, a fox and an ass {3vv}
  • Z358
  • Song (1694)
    Ask me to love no more [A Hammond]
  • Z242
  • Catch (?)
    As Roger last night to Jenny lay close {3vv}
  • Z599/1
  • Catch (1691)
    At the close of the evening {3vv}
  • Z360
  • Song
    Bacchus is a power divine
  • Z461
  • Song
    Beneath a dark and melancholy grove {SB}
  • Z361
  • Song (1684)
    Beware, poor Shepherds
  • Z243
  • Catch (?1693-4)
    Bring the bowl and cool Nantz {3vv}
  • Z244
  • Catch (?)
    Call for the reckoning {3vv}
  • Z362
  • Song (1687)
    Cease, anxious world [G Etherege]
  • Z363
  • Song (1678)
    Cease, O my sad soul [C Webbe]
  • Z364
  • Song (1694)
    Celia's fond, too long I've loved her
  • Z483
  • Song (1686)
    Come, dear companions of th'Arcadian fields {SB}
  • Z484
  • Song (1685)
    Come, lay by all care {SB}
  • Z245
  • Catch (?)
    Come let us drink [A Brome] {3vv,bc}
  • Z246
  • Catch (1685)
    Come my hearts, play your parts {3vv}
  • Z365
  • Song (1692)
    Corinna is divinely fair
  • Z367
  • Song (1685)
    Cupid, the slyest rogue alive
  • Z247
  • Catch (1693)
    Down, down with Bacchus {3vv}
  • Z462
  • Song
    Draw near, you lovers [T Stanley] {SB}
  • Z248
  • Catch (1686)
    Drink on till night be spent [P Ayres] {3vv}
  • Z485
  • Song (1694)
    Dulcibella, when e'er I sue for a kiss [A Henley] {SB}
  • Z486
  • Song (1692)
    Fair Cloe, my breast so alarms [J Glanvill] {SB}
  • Z368
  • Song (1685)
    Farewell, all joys
  • Z463
  • Song (1685)
    Farewell, ye rocks [D'Urfey] {SB}
  • Z421
  • Song
    The fatal hour comes on apace
  • Z487
  • Song (1687)
    Fill the bowl with rosy wine [A Cowley] {SB}
  • Z369
  • Song (1692)
    Fly swift, ye hours
  • Z370
  • Song (1683)
    From silent shades and the Elysian groves
    Bess of Bedlam
  • Z249
  • Catch (1686)
    Full bags, a brisk bottle [J Allestry] {3vv}
  • Z464
  • Song (1687)
    Gently shepherds, you that know [Tate] {SB}
    on the death of John Playford
  • Z250
  • Catch (1685)
    God save our sovereign Charles {3vv}
  • Z489
  • Song
    Go tell Amynta, gentle swain [Dryden]
  • Z251
  • Catch (?)
    Great Apollo and Bacchus {3vv}
  • Z541
  • Song
    Hark Damon, hark {SSB,2rec,2vn}
  • Z542
  • Song
    Hark how the wild musicians sing {TTB,2vn}
  • Z490
  • Song
    Haste, gentle Charon {BB}
  • Z491
  • Song (1688)
    Has yet your breast no pity learn'd? {SB}
  • Z240
  • Catch (1685)
    A health to the nut-brown lass [J Suckling] {4vv}
  • Z371
  • Song (1695)
    Hears not my Phyllis [C Sedley]
    The Knotting Song
  • Z372
  • Song (1684)
    He himself courts his own ruin
  • Z492
  • Song (1687)
    Hence, fon deceiver {SB}
  • Z252
  • Catch (?)
    Here's a health, pray let it pass {3vv}
  • Z253
  • Catch (1680)
    Here's that will challenge all the fair {3vv}
    Bartholemew Fair
  • Z493
  • Song (1688)
    Here's to thee, Dick [Cowley] {SB}
  • Z254
  • Catch (1686)
    He that drinks is immortal {3vv}
  • Z465
  • Song (1690)
    High on a throne of glitt'ring ore [D'Urfey] {SB}
    ode to the Queen
  • Z373
  • Song
    How delightful's the life of an innocent swain
  • Z494
  • Song (1686)
    How great are the blessings 'A Health to King James' [Tate] {SB}
  • Z374
  • Song (1681)
    How I sigh when I think of the charms
  • Z543
  • Song (1688)
    How pleasant is this flowery plain {ST,2rec}
  • Z495
  • Song (1687)
    How sweet is the air and refreshing {SB}
  • Z375
  • Song
    I came, I saw, and was undone [A Cowley]
  • Z376
  • Song (1693)
    I envy not a monarch's fate
  • Z377
  • Song
    I fain would be free
    inc, bc lost
  • Z255
  • Catch (1689)
    If all be true that I do think {3vv}
  • Z544
  • Song
    If ever I more riches did desire [Cowley] {SSTB,2vn}
  • Z378
  • Song (1685)
    If grief has any power to kill
  • Z379
  • Song (1692-1695)
    If music be the food of love [H Heveningham]
    3 settings
  • Z380
  • Song
    If prayers and tears
    on the death of Charles II
  • Z256
  • Catch (1690)
    I gave her cakes and I gave her ale {3vv}
  • Z381
  • Song (1694)
    I lov'd fair Celia [B Howard]
    music as Z427
  • Z382
  • Song
    I love and I must
    Bell Barr
  • Z545
  • Song
    In a deep vision's intellectual scene 'The Complaint' [Cowley] {SSB}
  • Z496
  • Song
    In all our Cynthia's shining sphere [E Settle: The World in the Moon] {SB}
  • Z383
  • Song (1695)
    Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas [Herbert]
    The Queen's Epicedium
  • Z384
  • Song (1684)
    In Cloris all soft charms [J Howe]
  • Z497
  • Song (1687)
    In some kind dream [G Etherege] {SB}
  • Z385
  • Song (1685)
    In vain we dissemble
  • Z386
  • Song (1679)
    I resolve against cringing
  • Z498
  • Song (1686)
    I saw fair Cloris all alone [W Strode] {SB}
  • Z387
  • Song (1678)
    I saw that you were grown so high
  • Z257
  • Catch (?1693)
    Is Charleroy's siege come too? {3vv}
  • Z499
  • Song
    I spy Celia, Celia eyes me {SB}
  • Z388
  • Song (1681)
    I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams
  • Z574/10
  • Catch (1695)
    Jack thou art a toper {3vv}
  • Z101
  • Catch (?)
    Joy, mirth, triumphs I do defy {4vv}
    Originally an Alleluia?
  • Z500
  • Song
    Julia, your unjust disdain {SB}
  • Z389
  • Song
    Leave these useless arts in loving
    version of duet in Shadwell: Epsom Wells
  • Z390
  • Song (1683)
    Let each gallant heart [J Turner]
  • Z391
  • Song (1687)
    Let formal lovers still pursue
  • Z501
  • Song (1689)
    Let Hector, Achilles and each brave commander {SB}
  • Z258
  • Catch (1685)
    Let the grave folks go preach {3vv}
  • Z259
  • Catch (?1691)
    Let us drink to the blades {3vv}
  • Z466
  • Song (1684)
    Let us, kind Lesbia, give away {SB}
  • Z502
  • Song (1691)
    Lost is my quiet forever {SB}
  • Z392
  • Song
    Love arms himself in Celia's eyes
  • Z393
  • Song (1685)
    Love is now become a trade
  • Z394
  • Song
    Lovely Albina's come ashore
  • Z395
  • Song (1688)
    Love's power in my heart shall find no compliance
  • Z396
  • Song (1695)
    Love, thou canst hear, tho' thou art blind [R Howard]
  • Z276
  • Catch (1686)
    The Macedon youth [Suckling] {4vv}
  • Z277
  • Catch (1686)
    The miller's daughter riding {3vv}
  • Z397
  • Song (1678)
    More love or more disdain I crave [Webbe]
  • Z467
  • Song (1685)
    Musing on cares of human fate [D'Urfey] {SB}
  • Z399
  • Song (1685)
    My heart, wherever you appear
  • Z260
  • Catch (1688)
    My lady's coachman, John {3vv}
  • Z594/1
  • Catch (1685)
    My wife has a tounge {3vv}
  • Z503
  • Song (1689)
    Nestor, who did to thrice man's age attain {SB}
  • Z400
  • Song
    Not all my torments can your pity move
  • Z468
  • Song
    No, to what purpose should I speak [Cowley] {SB}
  • Z401
  • Song (1693)
    No watch, dear Celia, just is found
  • Z261
  • Catch (1685)
    Now England's great council's assembled {3vv}
  • Z262
  • Catch (1688)
    Now, now we are met and humours agree {3vv}
  • Z504
  • Song (1695)
    O dive custos Auriacae domus [H Parker] {SS}
    on the death of Queen Mary
  • Z402
  • Song
    O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes
  • Z263
  • Catch (1693)
    Of all the instruments that are {3vv}
  • Z505
  • Song (1687)
    Oft am I by the women told [Cowley] {SB}
  • Z403
  • Song (1690)
    O! how happy's he [W Mountfort]
    inc, bc lost, melody from Dioclesion
  • Z506
  • Song
    Oh! what a scene does entertain my sight {rec,vn}
  • Z404
  • Song
    Olinda in the shades unseen
  • Z264
  • Catch (1686)
    Once in our lives let us drink to our wives {3vv}
  • Z265
  • Catch (?)
    Once, twice, thrice, I Julia tried {3vv}
  • Z266
  • Catch (?)
    One industrious insect [?R Thomlinson] {3vv}
    Insecta praecauta, alterius merda
  • Z405
  • Song (1692)
    On the brow of Richmond Hill [D'Urfey]
  • Z406
  • Song (1687)
    O solitude, my sweetest choice [K Philips]
  • Z267
  • Catch (1688)
    Pale faces, stand by [Mr Taverner] {3vv}
  • Z407
  • Song (1681)
    Pastora's beauties when unblown
  • Z409
  • Song (1685)
    Phillis, talk no more of passion
  • Z408
  • Song (1688)
    Phyllis, I can ne'er forgive it
  • Z410
  • Song (1695)
    Pious Celinda goes to prayers [Congreve]
  • ZD171
  • Song
    A Poor blind woman {SSB}
  • Z268
  • Catch (?)
    Pox on you for a fop {3vv}
  • Z269
  • Catch (?)
    Prithee be n't so sad and serious [Brome] {3vv}
  • Z411
  • Song (1683)
    Rashly I swore I would disown
  • Z270
  • Catch (1694)
    Room for th'express [written on the fall of Limerick, July 1694] {3vv}
  • Z507
  • Song (1686)
    Saccharissa's grown old {SB}
  • Z412
  • Song (1694)
    Sawney is a bonny lad [P A Motteux]
  • Z469
  • Song (1679)
    Scarce had the rising sun appear'd
  • Z470
  • Song (1689)
    See how the fading glories of the year {SB}
  • Z508
  • Song
    See where she sits [Cowley] {2vn}
  • Z413
  • Song (1683)
    She loves and she confesses too [Cowley]
  • Z414
  • Song (1695)
    She that would gain a faithful lover
  • Z415
  • Song (1683)
    She who my poor heart possesses
  • Z416
  • Song (1681)
    Since one poor view has drawn my heart
  • Z271
  • Catch (1685)
    Since the duke is return's {3vv}
  • Z471
  • Song (1679)
    Since the pox or the plague {SB}
  • Z272
  • Catch (?)
    Since time so kind to us does prove {3vv}
  • Z273
  • Catch (?)
    Sir Walter enjoying his damsel {3vv}
  • Z509
  • Song (1685)
    Sit down, my dear Sylvia [D'Urfey] {SB}
  • Z510
  • Song (1685)
    Soft notes and gently raised [J Howe] {SB,2rec}
    A Serenading Song
  • Z274
  • Catch (?)
    Soldier, soldier, take off thy wine {4vv}
  • Z417
  • Song (1687)
    Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love [A Wharton]
  • Z444
  • Song (1692)
    Stript of their green our groves appear [Motteux]
  • Z275
  • Catch (1688)
    Sum up all the delights {3vv}
  • Z278
  • Catch (?1691)
    The surrender of Limerick {3vv}
  • Z418
  • Song (1678)
    Sweet, be no longer sad [Webbe]
  • ZS70
  • Song (1678)
    Sweet tyranness, I now resign
    solo version of trio
  • ZS69
  • Song (1667)
    Sweet tyranness, I now resign {SSB}
  • Z420
  • Song (1688)
    Sylvia, now your scorn give over
  • Z511
  • Song
    Sylvia, thou brighter eye of night {SB}
  • Z512
  • Song (1686)
    Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair
  • Z513
  • Song
    There never was so wretched lover as I [Congreve] {SB}
  • Z422
  • Song (1685)
    They say you're angry [Cowley]
  • Z423
  • Song (1688)
    This poet sings the Trojan wars
    Anacreon's Defeat
  • Z514
  • Song (1685)
    Though my mistress be fair {SB}
  • Z359
  • Song (1684)
    A thousand sev'ral ways I tried
  • Z424
  • Song (1684)
    Through mournful shades and solitary groves [R Duke]
  • Z279
  • Catch (1685)
    'Tis easy to force {4B}
  • Z280
  • Catch (1686)
    'Tis too late for a coach {3vv}
  • Z546
  • Song
    'Tis wine was made to rule the day {S,SSB}
  • Z281
  • Catch (1685)
    'Tis women makes us love {4vv}
  • Z282
  • Catch (1687)
    To all lovers of music [Carr] {3vv}
  • Z283
  • Catch (1685)
    To thee, to thee and to a maid {3vv}
  • Z515
  • Song
    Trip it, trip it in a ring
    duet version of solo song in The Fairy Queen
  • Z284
  • Catch (c1689)
    True Englishmen drink a good health {3vv}
    Song with music on the 7 Bishops
  • Z425
  • Song
    Turn then thine eyes
    solo version of duet in The Fairy Queen
  • Z285
  • Catch (1686)
    Under a green elm lies Luke Shepherd's helm {4vv}
  • Z516
  • Song (1692)
    Underneath this myrtle shade [Cowley] {SB}
  • Z286
  • Catch (1686)
    Under this stone lies Gabriel John {3vv}
  • Z426
  • Song
    Urge me no more
  • Z427
  • Song (1693)
    We now, my Thyrsis, never find [Motteux]
    music as z381
  • Z547
  • Song
    We reap all the pleasures {inc STB,2rec}
  • Z547
  • Song
    We reap all the pleasures {STB,2rec}
    inc
  • Z517
  • Song (1689)
    Were I to choose the greatest bliss {SB}
  • Z428
  • Song
    What a sad fate is mine
    2 settings
  • Z429
  • Song (1694)
    What can we poor females do?
    solo version of duet Z518
  • Z518
  • Song
    What can we poor females do? {also as solo song}
  • Z472
  • Song (1679)
    What hope for us remains now he is gone?
    on the death of Matthew Locke
  • Z430
  • Song (1687)
    When first Amintas sued for a kiss [D'Urfey]
  • Z431
  • Song (1687)
    When first my shepherdess and I
  • Z519
  • Song (1684)
    When gay Philander left the plain {SB}
  • Z432
  • Song (1681)
    When her languishing eyes said 'love'
  • Z433
  • Song (1678)
    When I a lover pale do see
  • Z520
  • Song (1685)
    When, lovely Phyllis, thou art kind {SB}
  • Z434
  • Song
    When my Aemelia smiles
  • Z521
  • Song (1695)
    When Myra sings [G Granville] {SB}
  • ZD201
  • Song
    When night her purple veil had softly spread {B,2vn}
  • Z435
  • Song (1683)
    When Strephon found his passion vain
  • Z522
  • Song (1686)
    When Teucer from his father fled [D Kenrick] {SB}
  • ZD172
  • Song
    When the cock begins to crow {SSB}
  • Z436
  • Song (1675)
    When Thyrsis did the splendid eye
  • Z287
  • Catch (1686)
    When V and I together meet {3vv}
  • Z523
  • Song
    While bolts and bars my days control {SB}
  • Z437
  • Song (1685)
    While Thyrsis, wrapt in downy sleep
  • Z524
  • Song
    While you for me alone had charms [J Oldham] {SB}
  • Z438
  • Song (1686)
    Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still
  • Z440
  • Song
    Who but a slave can well express
  • Z441
  • Song (1695)
    Who can behold Florella's charms?
  • Z288
  • Catch (1685)
    Who comes there? {3vv}
  • Z525
  • Song (1691)
    Why, my Daphne, why complaining?
    A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne
  • Z442
  • Song
    Why so serious, why so grave? [Flatman]
    inc, bc lost
  • Z289
  • Catch (1686)
    Wine in a morning makes us frolic and gay [T Brown] {3vv}
  • Z290
  • Catch (1685)
    Would you know how we meet [T Otway] {3vv}
  • Z443
  • Song (1685)
    Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind
  • Z291
  • Catch (1691)
    Young Colin cleaving of a beam [D'Urfey] {3vv}
  • Z292
  • Catch (1683)
    Young John the gard'ner {4vv}
  • Z473
  • Song
    Young Thyrsis' fate, ye hills and groves, deplore {SB}
    on the death of Thomas Farmer


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