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