Purcell's Works: Purcell's Works (Operas and Semi-Operas)


Portrait
of Purcell Dido and Aeneas. Dioclesian. King Arthur. The Fairy Queen. The Indian Queen. The Tempest. Timon of Athens.

(Anthems and Services)

(Incidental Music)

(Instrumental)

(Odes and Welcome Songs)

(Songs, Arias and Catches)

(Full Index)


Z626 Opera (1689)
Dido and Aeneas [N Tate]
  • Z626/1
  • Overture
    -Act 1-
  • Z626/2a
  • Aria
    Shake the cloud from off your brow {S (Belinda)}
  • Z626/2b
  • Chorus
    Banish sorrow, banish care {chor}
  • Z626/3
  • Aria and Ritornello
    Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment {S (Dido)}
  • Z626/4
  • Duet (dialogue)
    Grief increases by concealing {SS}
  • Z626/5
  • Chorus
    When monarchs unite {chor}
  • Z626/6
  • Trio (dialogue)
    Whence could so much virtue spring? {SSS}
  • Z626/7
  • Duet and Chorus
    Fear no danger {SS,chor}
  • Z626/?
  • Dance
  • Z626/8
  • Trio (dialogue)
    See, your royal guest appears {SST}
  • Z626/9
  • Chorus
    Cupid only throws the dart {chor}
  • Z626/10
  • Aria
    If not for mine {T (Aeneas)}
  • Z626/11
  • Prelude and Aria
    Pursue thy conquest, love {S (Belinda)}
  • Z626/?
  • A dance gittars chacony
  • Z626/12
  • Chorus
    To the hills and the vales {chor}
  • Z626/13
  • The triumphing dance
    -Act 2-
  • Z626/14
  • Prelude and Aria
    Wayward sisters {S (Sorceress)}
  • Z626/15
  • Chorus
    Harm's our delight {chor}
  • Z626/16
  • Aria
    The queen of Carthage, whom we hate {S (Sorceress)}
  • Z626/17-20
  • Chorus and Dialogue
    Ho ho ho! {SSS,chor}
  • Z626/21
  • Chorus
    In our deep vaulted cell {S (echo),chor}
  • Z626/22
  • Echo dance of the furies {str}
  • Z626/23
  • Ritornello
    {str}
  • Z626/24a-24b
  • Aria and Chorus
    Thanks to these lonesome vales {S (Dido),chor}
  • Z626/24c
  • Gittar ground- a dance {gui}
  • Z626/25a
  • Aria
    Oft she visits this lone mountain {S (Second Woman)}
  • Z626/25b
  • Ritornello
    A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's Women {str}
  • Z626/26
  • Aria
    Behold, upon my bended spear {T (Aeneas)}
  • Z626/27
  • Aria and Chorus
    Haste, haste to town {S (Belinda),chor}
  • Z626/28
  • Duet (dialogue)
    Stay, Prince {ST}
  • Z626/28c
  • Dance?
    -Act 3-
  • Z626/29
  • Prelude and Aria
    Come away, fellow sailors {(First Sailor), chor}
  • Z626/30
  • The sailor's dance {str}
  • Z626/31
  • Trio (dialogue)
    See the flags and the streamers curling {SSS}
  • Z626/32
  • Aria
    Our next motion {S (Sorceress)}
  • Z626/33
  • Chorus
    Destruction's our delight {chor}
  • Z626/34
  • The witches' dance {str}
  • Z626/35a
  • Aria
    Your counsel all is urg'd in vain {S (Dido)}
  • Z626/35b?
  • Trio (dialogue)
    See, madam where the Prince appears {SST}
  • Z626/36
  • Chorus
    Great minds against themselves conspire {chor}
  • Z626/37
  • Aria
    Thy hand Belinda, darkness shades me {S (Dido)}
  • Z626/38
  • Ground, Aria and Ritornello
    When I am laid in earth {S (Dido)}
  • Z626/39
  • Chorus
    With drooping wings {chor}
  • Z626/40
  • All that we know the angels do above {str}
    Epilogue

    Z629 Semi-Opera (1689)
    The Fairy Queen [?E Settle]
  • Z629/1
  • First Music: Prelude/Hornpipe
  • Z629/2
  • Second Music: Air/Rondeau
  • Z629/3
  • Overture: Grave/Canzona
    -Act 1-
  • Z629/4
  • Prelude and Aria
    Come, come, come, let us leave the town {SB}
  • Z629/5
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    Fill up the bowl! {SSB,chor}
  • Z629/6
  • First Act Tune: Jig {str}
    -Act 2-
  • Z629/7
  • Prelude and Aria
    Come all ye songsters of the sky {T/A}
  • Z629/8ab
  • Prelude and Trio
    May the god of wit inspire {ATB}
  • Z629/8c
  • Echo
  • Z629/9
  • Chorus
    Now joyn your warlbling voices all {chor}
  • Z629/10ab
  • Aria and Chorus
    Sing while we trip it on the green {S,chor,str}
  • Z629/10c
  • A dance of the fairies
  • Z629/11
  • Prelude and Aria
    See even Night herself is here {S}
  • Z629/12
  • Aria
    I am come to lock all fast {S}
  • Z629/13
  • Prelude and Aria
    One charming night {A (Secrecy)}
  • Z629/14
  • Aria and Chorus
    Hush, no more, be silent all {B,chor}
  • Z629/15
  • A dance for the followers of the night {str}
  • Z629/16
  • Second act tune: Air
    -Act 3-
  • Z629/17
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    If love's a sweet passion {S,chor}
  • Z629/18
  • Overture: Symphony while the swans come forward {str}
  • Z629/19
  • Dance for the fairies {str}
  • Z629/20
  • Dance for the green men {str}
  • Z629/21
  • Aria
    Ye gentle spirits of the air appear {S}
  • Z629/22
  • Aria
    Now the maids and the men {AB}
    Dialogue betweem Coridon and Mopsa
  • Z629/23
  • Aria
    When I have often heard {S (Nymph)}
  • Z629/24a
  • A dance of haymakers
  • Z629/24b
  • Dance for a clown
    lost
  • Z629/25
  • Aria and Chorus
    A thousand thousand ways we'll find {T/A,chor}
  • Z629/26
  • Third act tune: Hornpipe
    -Act 4-
  • Z629/27
  • Symphony
    Sonata while the sun rises
  • Z629/28
  • Aria and Chorus
    Now the night is chas'd away {S,chor}
  • Z629/29
  • Duet
    Let the fifes, and the clarions {AA}
  • Z629/30
  • Entry of Phoebus {2tpt,2ob,2kdrm,str}
  • Z629/31
  • Prelude and Aria
    When a cruel long winter {T,2vn}
  • Z629/32
  • Chorus
    Hail! great parent of us all {chor,2tpt,2ob,2kdrm,str}
  • Z629/33
  • Prelude and Aria
    Thus the ever grateful spring {S (Spring)}
  • Z629/34
  • Prelude and Aria
    Here's the summer, sprightly, gay {A (Summer)}
  • Z629/35
  • Prelude and Aria
    See my many colour'd fields {T (Autumn)}
  • Z629/36
  • Prelude and Aria
    Next, winter comes slowly {B (Winter)}
  • Z629/37
  • Chorus
    Hail! great parent of us all {chor,2tpt,2ob,2kdrm,str}
    Repeat
  • Z629/38
  • Fourth act tune: Air
    -Act 5-
  • Z629/39a
  • Prelude to Juno's song {str}
  • Z629/39bc
  • Aria
    Thrice happy lovers {S (Juno)}
    Epithalamium
  • Z629/40
  • Aria
    O let me weep {S,vn.obligato}
    The plaint
  • Z629/41
  • Entry dance
  • Z629/42
  • Symphony
  • Z629/43
  • Aria
    Thus the gloomy world st first began to shine {T/A,tpt,2vn}
  • Z629/44
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    Thus happy and free {S (Chinese Woman),chor}
  • Z629/45
  • Ground and Aria
    Yes, Daphne, in your looks I find {T/A (Chinese Man)}
  • Z629/46
  • Monkey's dance
  • Z629/47
  • Prelude and Aria
    Hark how all things in one sound agree {S/A,str}
  • Z629/48
  • Aria and Chorus
    Hark! now the echoing air {S (Second Woman),chor}
  • Z629/49
  • Duet and Chorus
    Sure the dull god of marriage {SS,chor}
  • Z629/50a
  • Prelude
  • Z629/50b
  • Aria
    See, see, I obey {B (Hymen)}
  • Z629/50c
  • Duet
    Turn then thine eyes {SS (Two Women)}
  • Z629/50d
  • Aria
    My torch, indeed will from such brightness shine {B,2vn}
  • Z629/50ef
  • Trio
    They shall be as happy {SSB}
  • Z629/51
  • Chaconne: Dance for the chinese man and woman

    Z630 Semi-Opera (1695)
    The Indian Queen [Dryden and Howard]
  • Z630/1
  • 1st Music: Air/Hornpipe
  • Z630/2
  • 2nd Music: Air/Hornpipe
  • Z630/3
  • Overture: Grave/Canzon
    -Prologue-
  • Z630/4a
  • Trumpet tune
  • Z630/4b
  • Aria
    Wake Quivera, wake {T (Inidan Boy)}
  • Z630/4c-4d
  • Prelude and Aria
    Why should men quarrel {S (Indian Girl)}
  • Z630/?
  • Trumpet Tune
    -Act 2-
  • Z630/5
  • Symphony
  • Z630/6
  • Aria and Chorus
    I come to sing great Zempoalla's story {T (Fame),chor}
  • Z630/7
  • Trio
    What flatt'ring noise is this {BBB}
  • Z630/8
  • Trumpet Tune
  • Z630/9
  • Symphony
  • Z630/10
  • Dance
  • Z630/11
  • 2nd Act Music: Trumpet Tune (reprise)
    -Act 3-
  • Z630/12
  • Dance
  • Z630/13
  • Aria
    Ye twice ten hundred deities {(Ismeron)}
  • Z630/14
  • Symphony
  • Z630/15
  • Aria
    Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd {(God of Dreams)}
  • Z630/16
  • Trumpet Overture: Canzon/Adagio
  • Z630/17a
  • Duet and Quartet
    Ah! Ah! How happy are we! {???}
  • Z630/18
  • 3rd Act Tune: Rondeau
  • Z630/19
  • Aria
    They tell us that you mighty powers above {S (Orazia)}
  • Z630/20
  • 4th Act Tune
  • Z630/21a
  • Prelude and Chorus
    While thus we bow before your shrine
  • Z630/21b
  • Aria
    You who at the altar stand {B (High Priest)}
  • Z630/21c-21d
  • Prelude and Chorus
    All dismal sounds thus on these off'rings wait
  • Z630/22
  • Air
    ??
    Masque [by Daniel Purcell]

    Z628 Semi-Opera (1691)
    King Arthur -or- The British Worthy [J Dryden]
  • Z628/1
  • 1st Music
  • Z628/2
  • 2nd Music
  • Z628/3
  • Air
  • Z628/4
  • Overture
  • Z628/5
  • Prelude and Aria
    Woden, first to thee {B}
  • Z628/6
  • Aria
    The white horse {B}
  • Z628/7-8
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    Brave Souls {S,chor}
  • Z628/9
  • Aria
    I call ye all to Woden's hall {T,chor}
  • Z628/10
  • Symphony, Aria and Chorus
    Come if you dare {T,chor}
  • Z628/11
  • 1st Act Tune
    -Act 2-
  • Z628/12
  • Prelude and Aria
    Hither this way bend {S (Philidel),chor,2ob,str}
  • Z628/13
  • Aria, Ritornello
    Let not a moon-born Elf [B (Grimbald)]
  • Z628/14
  • Dialogue and Chorus
    Come follow me {S (Philidel),STAB,chor}
  • Z628/15
  • Dance, Aria and Chorus
    How blest are Shepherds {T (Shepherd),chor}
  • Z628/16
  • Symphony and Duet (dialogue)
    Shepherd, leave decoying {SS (Two Shepherdesses),2fl,2ob,str}
  • Z628/17
  • Chorus and Hornpipe
    Come Shepherds
  • Z628/18
  • 2nd Act Tune
    -Act 3-
  • Z628/19
  • Prelude and Aria
    What ho {S (Cupid)}
    The Frost Scene
  • Z628/20
  • Prelude and Aria
    What power art thou {B (Genius)}
    Prelude while the cold Genius rises
  • Z628/21
  • Aria
    Thou doting fool forbear {S (Cupid)}
  • Z628/22
  • Aria
    Great love {B}
  • Z628/23
  • Aria
    No part {S}
  • Z628/24
  • Prelude, Chorus and Dance
    See, see
  • Z628/25
  • Aria, Ritornello and Chorus
    Tis I, that have warn'd ye {S (Cupid)}
  • Z628/26
  • Prelude and Duet
    Sound a Parley {S (Cupid),B (Genius)}
  • Z628/27
  • Aria, Ritornello and Chorus
    Tis I, that have warn'd ye {S (Cupid)}
  • Z628/28
  • 3rd Act Tune: Air
    -Act 4 (Scene 2)-
  • Z628/29
  • Duet
    Two Daughters {SS (Two Syrens)}
  • Z628/30a
  • Passacaglia
  • Z628/30b-30d
  • Aria, Ritornello and Chorus
    How happy the Lover {A,chor}
  • Z628/30e-30i
  • Dialogue and Chorus
    No, no joy [SSSATB,chor]
  • Z628/31
  • 4th Act Tune
    -Act 5 (Scene 2)-
  • Z628/32a
  • Prelude: Trompet Tune
  • Z628/32b-32c
  • Aria
    Ye Blust'ring Brethren {B (Aeolus),2fl,str}
  • Z628/33
  • Symphony
  • Z628/34
  • Duet and Chorus
    Round thy coasts {S (Nereid),B (Pan),chor}
  • Z628/35a
  • Aria
    You say tis love {S}
  • Z628/35b-35c
  • Aria and Chorus
    This not my passion {B,chor}
  • Z628/35d-35e
  • Aria and Chorus
    But one soft moment {B,chor}
  • Z628/36
  • Duet
    For folded flocks {SB}
  • Z628/37
  • Aria and Chorus
    Your hay is mown {T (Comus)}
  • Z628/38
  • Aria
    Fairest Isle {S (Venus)}
  • Z628/39
  • Chorus
    St George {S,chor,2tpt,2ob,str}
  • Z628/40
  • 5th Act Tune: Chaconne

    Z627 Semi-Opera (1690)
    Prophetess -or- The History of Dioclesian [T Betterton (after J Fletcher, P Massinger)]
  • Z627/1
  • 1st Music
  • Z627/2
  • 2nd Music
  • Z627/3
  • Overture
  • Z627/4
  • 1st Act Tune: Hornpipe
    -Act 2-
  • Z627/5
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    Great Diocles the boar has killed {B,chor}
  • Z627/6
  • Prelude and Aria
    Charon, the peaceful shade invites {S}
  • Z627/7
  • Symphony
  • Z627/8
  • Duet and Chorus
    Let all mankind the pleasures share {SB,chor}
  • Z627/9
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    Let the soldier's rejoice {B/A,chor}
  • Z627/10
  • Ritornello
    {2tpt,2ob}
  • Z627/11
  • Trio and Chorus
    To Mars let 'em raise {BBB/ATB,chor}
  • Z627/12
  • Ritornello

  • Z627/13a
  • Prelude {2fl}
    A Symphony of flutes in the air
  • Z627/13bc
  • Aria and Chorus
    Since the toils and hazards of war {A,chor,2fl,2ob,str}
  • Z627/13d
  • Aria and Ritornello
    With dances and songs {B}
    Song upon a Ground
  • Z627/13e
  • Quartet and Chorus
    Let the priests with processions {SBBB,chor,2ob,2t.ob}
  • Z627/14
  • Dance of the Furies
  • Z627/15
  • 2nd Act Tune
    -Act 3-
  • Z627/16
  • Chaconne: Two in one upon a Ground
  • Z627/App1
  • Aria
    When first I saw {S}
  • Z627/17
  • The Chair Dance
  • Z627/18
  • Prelude and Aria
    What shall I do {S}
  • Z627/19
  • 3rd Act Tune
    -Act 4-
  • Z627/20
  • Butterfy Dance {[=14a]}
  • Z627/21
  • Trumpet Tune
  • Z627/22-23
  • Aria and Chorus
    Sound Fame {B,chor}
  • Z627/24
  • 4th Act Tune
    -Act 5-
  • Z627/25
  • Country Dance
  • Z627/26
  • Prelude and Masque
    Call the Nymphs and the fauns {S (Cupid)}
  • Z627/27
  • Duet
    Come, come away {B (a Bachanalian),B (a Silvan)}
    -First Entry-
  • Z627/28
  • Prelude and Chorus
    Behold, O mightiest of gods {2ob,str}
  • Z627/29
  • Paspe {2tpt,str}
  • Z627/30
  • Duet
    O, the sweet delights of love {SS (Two Wood-Gods)}
  • Z627/31
  • Aria and Chorus
    Let monarchs fight {S (a Faun),chor,str}
  • Z627/App2
  • Aria
    Since from my dear Astrea's sight {S (a Faun)}
    -Second Entry-
  • Z627/32ab
  • Prelude and Duet
    Make room for the great god of wine {BB (Bacchus' Followers),2ob}
  • Z627/32c
  • Chorus
    I'm here with my jolly crew {chor,2ob}
  • Z627/32d
  • Dance of the Baccanals {2ob}
  • Z627/?
  • Trio and Chorus
    Give to every one {BBB,chor}
  • Z627/33
  • Aria and Ritornello
    STill I'm wishing {B/S (Cupid's Follower)}
    -Third Entry-
  • Z627/34
  • Canaries
  • Z627/35
  • Duet (dialogue)
    Tell me why my charming fair {S (Shepherdess),B (Shepherd)}
    -Fourth Entry-
  • Z627/36
  • Dance
  • Z627/37
  • Aria and Chorus
    All our days {B (One of the Pleasures),chor}
  • Z627/App3
  • Aria
    Let us dance {S (Another of the Pleasures)}
  • Z627/38
  • Trio
    Triumph, victorious love {BBB}
  • Z627/39
  • Chorus
    {chor}

    Z631 Semi-Opera (c1695)
    The Tempest -or- The Enchanted Island [T Shadwell]
  • Z631/1
  • Overture: Grave/Canzon
    -Act 2-
  • Z631/2
  • Duet (dialogue) and Chorus
    Where does the black fiend Ambition reside {BB (Two Devils),chor}
  • Z631/3
  • Prelude and Aria
    Arise, ye subterranean winds {B}
  • Z631/4
  • Dance
    from Lully's `Cadmus and Hermione'
    -Act 3-
  • Z631/5
  • Aria and Chorus
    Come unto these yellow sands {S (Ariel),chor}
  • Z631/6
  • Prelude, Aria and Chorus
    Full fathom five {S (Ariel),chor}
  • Z631/7
  • Aria and Ritornello
    Dry those eyes {S (Ariel)}
  • Z631/8
  • Prelude and Aria
    Kind fortune smiles {S (Ariel)}
    -Act 4-
  • Z631/9
  • Dance of devils
  • Z631/10
  • Aria
    Dear pretty youth {S (Dorinda)}
    -Act 5-
  • Z631/11a
  • Recitative
    Great Neptune! {S (Amphitrite)}
  • Z631/11b-11d
  • Aria and Ritornello
    Fair and serene {B (Neptune)}
  • Z631/12
  • Chorus and Ritornello
    The Nereids and the Tritons {chor}
  • Z631/13
  • Aria
    Aeolus, you must appear {B (Neptune)}
  • Z631/14
  • Aria
    Your awful voice I hear {A (Aeolus)}
  • Z631/15
  • Prelude and Aria
    Halcyon days {S (Amphitrite),ob,str}
  • Z631/16
  • Prelude and Aria
    See, see, the heavens smile {B (Neptune)}
  • Z631/17
  • Duet and Chorus
    No stars again shall hurt you {S (Amphitrite),B (Neptune),chor}

    Z632 Semi-Opera (1694)
    Timon of Athens [T Shadwell]
  • Z632/1
  • Overture {tpt,str}
    -The Masque-
  • Z632/2
  • Duet
    Hark! how the songsters of the grove {SS (Two Nymphs),2fl,bc}
    A Symphony of Pipes imitating the chirping of birds
  • Z632/3
  • Aria
    Love in their little veins inspires {S (Nymph),2fl,bc}
  • Z632/4
  • Trio
    But ah! how much are our delights {SS (Two Nymphs),B (Shepherd),bc}
  • Z632/5
  • Aria
    Hence! hence! hence with your trifling deity {B (A Bacchanal),2ob,bc}
  • Z632/6
  • Chorus
    But over us no griefs prevail {abb,2vn,bc}
  • Z632/7
  • Aria
    Come all to me {S (Cupid),2vn,bc}
  • Z632/8
  • Chorus
    Who can resist such mighty, mighty charms {satb,str}
  • Z632/9
  • Aria
    Return, revolting rebels {B (Bacchus),2ob,bc}
  • Z632/10
  • Aria
    The cares of lovers {S (Nymph),bc}
  • Z632/11
  • Aria
    Love quickly is pall'd {A (A Bacchanal),2ob,bc}
  • Z632/12
  • Duet and Chorus
    Come, let us agree {S (Cupid),B (Bacchus),chor,str}
  • Z632/13
  • Curtain Tune on a Ground {str}

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