| Work Title
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Comes Amoris
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| Alternative. Title
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Comes Amoris: or the Companion of Love. Being a Choice Collection Of the Newest Songs now in Use. With Thorow-Bass to each Song for the Harpsichord, Theorbo, or Bass-Viol.
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| Composer
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Carr, John
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| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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None [force assignment]
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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5 books:
- Comes Amoris Book 2
- Lucinda's lovely charming face - Samuel Akeroyde (17th/18th Century)
- When Mony has done what e're it can – John Reading (1645c-1692)
- No Sylvia, no, not all thy care - Peter Isaack (1655-1694)
- How unhappy alas - Raphael Courteville (1735c+)
- How can they tast of joy - James Hart (1647-1718)
- I saw the lass – Moses Snow (1661-1702)
- Unhappy 'tis that I was born - Robert King (1660c-1726)
- Youth and wit - James Hart
- Farewell love, delight and pleasure - Alexander Damascene (1719+)
- By what I've seen - Daniel Purcell (1664c-1717)
- Astrea quits her bleating flocks - William Turner (1651-1740)
- Call me no more untrue - William Turner
- Could and raw the north did blow. The last new Scotch song - Anon
- Welcome, welcome, glorious maid - William Turner
- Bright Gloriana is the saint - William Turner
- A gentle sleep, thou easer of my woes - D. Sherburne
- Whilst sighing at your feet - Anon
- Tinking Tom was an honest man - Samuel Akeroyde (3 equal voices)
- From a due dose of claret - Henry Hall (1656c-1707)
- Stretch'd upon the grass - Samuel Akeroyde
A Small Collection of the Newest Catches (1687)
- The miller's daughter riding to the fair - John Blow (1649-1708)
- Sum up all the delights, Z275 - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- My Lady's coachman John, Z260 - Henry Purcell
- For the few hours of life - Richard Nicholson (1563-1639)
- Now, now we are met and humours agree, Z262 - Henry Purcell
- Now, now we are met, we're resolv'd to be jolly - Moses Snow (1661-1702)
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| First Publication.
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1688
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| Librettist
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various (mostly unattributed), including
- Book 2, No.2. Mr Weeden
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| Language
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English
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Baroque
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| Piece Style
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Baroque
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| Instrumentation
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voice, continuo (harpsichord, theorbo or bass-viol); 2 voices, continuo; 3 equal voices alone
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| External Links
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RISM 993122052
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| Extra Information
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According to Frank Kidson, Comes Amoris Book 2 is the earliest surviving use of beamed notes. Handel's Publisher, John Walsh, His Successors, and Contemporaries, The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul., 1920), pp. 430-450
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