Orpheus Britannicus (Henry Purcell)

General Information

Title: A Collection of all the Choicest SONGS for One, Two and Three Voices Compos'd By Mr. Henry Purcell

Composer: Henry Purcell
Publication date and place: 1698 .
and 1702

Description:

Orpheus Britannicus is a collection of songs by Henry Purcell, published posthumously in London in two volumes, the first in 1698 and the second in 1702.

The first publication of a section of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas was the air "Ah! Belinda" in Orpheus Britannicus, transposed up one step, from C to D.

Benjamin Britten, working with Peter Pears, realized and edited a number of songs from Orpheus Britannicus for both solo singer with piano and solo singer with orchestra.

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Works available on CPDL

Come, ye Sons of Art

1698, p006 If Musick be the food of Love

1698, p045 For Love ev'ry Creature is form'd

1698, p208 And in each track of glory

1698, p227 Here the deities approve

1702, p018 Hark! The echoing air a triumph sings

1702, p046 What can we poor Females do?

1706, p234 Nymphs and Shepherds come away

1706, p236 Shepherd, leave decoying

1706, p256 Thou tun'st this World below

Works at CPDL

Title	Year	Page	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
And in each track of glory, Z 333/5	1690	208	Secular	Arias	2	Solo SB
For love ev'ry creature is form'd, Z 628/30a	1691	45	Secular	Arias	2	SB
Here the deities approve, Z 339/3	1683	227	Secular	Arias	1	Solo Soprano
If music be the food of love, Z 379	1698	6	Secular	Arias	1	Solo Soprano