Spenser's Amoretti (Greene, Maurice)

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Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.(ca.1739).
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Misc. Notes Greene's rough original manuscript. Mostly autograph, although two songs in the hand of Martin Smith. Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): MS 812/53
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Publisher. Info. [probably London: I. Walsh, n.d. ]
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Misc. Notes Title-page missing.
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Publisher. Info. London: Harrison & Co., n.d. Plate (86), (87).
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Work Title Spenser's Amoretti
Alternative. Title Spenser's Amoretti. Composed by Doctor Greene for the Voice, Harpsichord, and Violin
Composer Greene, Maurice
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IMG 10
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 25 sonnets
Librettist Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
Language English
Dedication Duchess of Newcastle
Average DurationAvg. Duration 5 minutes each sonnet
1. After so long a race as I have runne (Spencer #80)
2. Happy ye leaves, when as those lilly hands (S #1)
3. Faire eyes, the myrrour of my mazed hart (S #7)
4. Ye tradefull merchants, that with weary toyle (S #15)
5. The rolling wheels that runneth often round (S #18)
6. The merry cuckow, messenger of spring (S #19)
7. How long shall this like dying life endure (S #25)
8. The laurell leafe, which you this day doe weave (S #28)
9. Like as a ship, that through the ocean wide (S #34)
10. What guile is this, that those her golden tresses (S #37)
11. Arion, when through tempests cruell wrack (S #38)
12. Sweet smile, the daughter of the queene of love (S #39)
13. Marke when she smiles with amiable cleare (S #40)
14. The love which iac so cruelly tormenteth (S #42)
15. Trust not the treason of those smiling lookos (S #47)
16. Fayre cruell, why are ye so fierce and crue11? (S #49)
17. Faire yee be sure, but cruell and unkind (S #56)
18. Thrise happy she, that is so well assured (S #39)
19. After long stormes and tempests sad assay (S #63)
20. Like as a huntsman after weary chace (S #67)
21. Fresh spring, the herald of loves rnightie king (S #70)
22. One day I wrote her name upon the strand (S #75)
23. La citing my love, I goe from place to place (S #70)
24. Since I did leave the presence of my love (S #87)
25. Like as the culver on the bared (S #89)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voice, continuo/harpsichord, + violin