18 Canzonets (Travers, John)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 18 Canzonets
First Publication 1746
Genre Categories Canzonets; For 2 voices, continuo; For voices with continuo; [8 more...]Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores with basso continuo; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; For 3 voices, continuo; English language

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Publisher. Info. London: John Simpson, for the Author, n.d.(1746).
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No.17. Fair and Ugly

Publisher. Info. The British Minstrel, and Musical and Literary Miscellany, Vol.3
Glasgow: William Hamilton, n.d.
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Work Title 18 Canzonets
Alternative. Title Eighteen Canzonets for Two, and three Voices; (The Words chiefly by Matthew Prior, Esq.) Set to Musick by John Travers, Organist of his Majesty's Chapel Royal and of St. Paul Covent Garden
Composer Travers, John
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IJT 1
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 18 Canzonets
First Publication. 1746
Librettist Matthew Prior
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voices, continuo

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Contents

  1. Proem. I, like a Bee, with Toil and Pain; ST, bc
  2. The Praise of Bacchus. Whilst our Joys in Wine we raise; AT, bc
  3. The Advice of Venus (Matthew Prior). Thus to the Muses spoke the Cyprian Dame; AT, bc
  4. An Epigram (Matthew Prior). When Bibo thought fit from the World to retreat; AB, bc
  5. On his own Birthday (Matthew Prior). I, my Dear, was born today, so all my Jolly Comrades say; TB, bc
  6. Chanson Françoise (Translated by Matthew Prior). Why thus from the Plain does my Shepherdess rove; SS, bc
  7. An Epigram (Matthew Prior). Says Pontius, in Rage, contradicting his Wife; AB, bc
  8. To Fortune (Matthew Prior). Whilst I, in Prison, on a Court look down; AT, bc
  9. Advice to Leonora (Matthew Prior). Cease, Leonora, cease to mourn, thy faithful Strephon will return; ST, bc
  10. An Epigram (Matthew Prior). Poor Hall caught his Death standing under a Spout; AT, bc
  11. Friendship (Matthew Prior). Reading ends in melancholy; AB, bc
  12. [Canzonet] (Matthew Prior). Haste, my Nanette, my lovely Maid; SB, bc
  13. Cupid's Promise (Matthew Prior). Soft Cupid, wanton am'rous Boy; ATB, bc
  14. Advice to Delius. He is not numbered with the Blest; ATB, bc
  15. Love's Security. Beauty should please but not ensnare; ATB, bc
  16. The Resolution. Pleasure's enchanted Ground I'll tread; ATB, bc
  17. (A Translation). Fair and Ugly, False and True; ATB, bc
  18. The old Bacchanal. Old I am, yet can (I think) those that younger are out-drink; ATB, bc
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