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| | '''Title:''' ''A Collection of all the Choicest SONGS for One, Two and Three Voices Compos'd By Mr. Henry Purcell'' |
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| ==Music files==
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| '''The link to the external site on which the edition below is hosted was removed on 6 November 2007 as the piano part is arranged by Benjamin Britten whose work is still under copyright in the USA and Europe.'''
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| *'''CPDL #11762'''
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| :'''Editor:''' [name removed] ''(added 2006-05-22)''.<!-- {{ScoreInfo|A4|20|225}}{{Copy|CPDL}}-->
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| :'''Edition notes:''' Duets from Orpheus Britannicus consist of the following 5 duets: <br>
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| :# Sound the trumpet
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| :# Lost is my quiet
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| :# What can we poor females do?
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| :# No, resistance is but vain
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| :# Shepherd, leave decoying
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| ==General Information==
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| '''Title:''' ''Duets from Orpheus Britannicus''<br>
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| {{Composer|Henry Purcell}} | | {{Composer|Henry Purcell}} |
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| '''Number of voices:''' 2vv '''Voicing:''' SS<br>
| | '''Published:''' 1698 and 1702 |
| '''Genre:''' {{pcat|Secular| music}}, [[:Category:Arias|Arias]]<br>
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| {{Language|English}}
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| '''Instruments:''' Piano <br>
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| '''Description:'''
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| ==Original text and translations==
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| {{Text|English}}
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| '''1. Sound the trumpet'''
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| :Sound the trumpet,
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| :sound the trumpet,
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| :Sound, sound,
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| :sound the trumpet till around
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| :you make the listening shores rebound
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| :you make the listening shores rebound
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| :the listening shores rebound.
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| :On the spritely Oboy,
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| :the spritely Oboy play
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| :all instruments of joy
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| :all, all, all,
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| :all the instruments of joy
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| :of joy, of joy,
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| :that skilful numbers can employ
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| :to celebrate, to celebrate
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| :the glories of this day,
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| :the glories, the glories of this day.
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| '''2. Lost is my quiet'''
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| :Lost is my quiet forever,
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| :Lost is my quiet forever,
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| :Lost forever, forever lost.
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| :Lost is my quiet forever.
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| :Ever lost is life's happiest part.
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| :Lost all, all, all my tender endeavours,
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| :to touch an insensible heart.
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| :But tho' my despair, is past curing
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| :But tho' my despair, my despair is past curing,
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| :and much endeserv'd is my fate.
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| :I'll show by a patient enduring,
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| :My love, I'll show by a patient enduring
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| :My love is unmov'd, is as mov'd as her hate.
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| '''3. What can we poor females do ?'''
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| :What can we, what can we poor females do?
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| :When pressing, teasing, pressing, teasing, Lovers sue?
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| :What can we, what can we poor, poor females do?
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| :What can we, what can we poor, poor females do?
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| :Fate affords no other way, than denying or complying,
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| :than denying or complying.
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| :What can we, what can we poor females do?
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| :When pressing, teasing, pressing, teasing, Lovers sue?
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| :What can we, what can we poor females do?
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| :And resenting or consenting,
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| :and resenting or consenting does alike our hopes betray
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| :What can we, what can we poor females do?
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| :When pressing, teasing, pressing, teasing, Lovers sue?
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| :What can we, what can we poor females do?
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| '''4. No, resistance is but vain''' | | '''Description:''' |
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| :No, no, no,
| | 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. |
| :No, no, no, resistance,
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| :Resistance is but vain,
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| :No, no, no,
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| :No, no, no, resistance,
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| :Resistance is but vain,
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| :Vain, vain, vain,
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| :Resistance is but vain,
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| :And only adds new weight,
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| :And only adds new weight,
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| :And only adds new weight to cupid's chain;
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| :No, no, no,
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| :No, no, no,
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| :No, no, no,
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| :No, no, no,
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| :Resistance is but vain,
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| :No, no, no,
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| :Resistance is but vain.
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| :A thousand, thousand,thousand, thousand ways,
| | 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. |
| :A thousand, thousand,thousand, thousand arts,
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| :The tyrant, the tyrant, the tyrant,
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| :The tyrant knows how to captivate our hearts.
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| :Sometimes he sighs, he sighs employs,
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| :and somtimes tries the universal language of the eyes
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| :The fierce, with fierceness he destroys
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| :The soft with tenderness decoys.
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| :The soft with tenderness decoys.
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| :He kills the strong,
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| :He kills the strong with joy, with joy,
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| :He kills the strong with joy,
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| :The weak with pain, with pain
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| :The weak with pain, with pain, no, no, no.
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| | [[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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| '''5. Shepherd, leave decoying'''
| | {{WikipediaLink2|Orpheus Britannicus}} |
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| :Shepherd, shepherd leave docoying,
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| :Pipes as sweet as summer's day;
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| :But a little after toying women have shot to pay.
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| :Here are mariage vows for signing,
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| :Set their mark that cannot write
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| :After that without repining,
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| :Play and welcome day and night,
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| :Play and welcome, play and welcome,
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| :Play and welcome day and night.
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