The Great Musicians: Purcell

Part 9

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1691. He composed music for (1) "Distressed innocence;" (2) "King Arthur;" (3) "The Gordian knot untyed;" (4) "Sir Anthony Love;" also an Ode, "Welcome, glorious morn," for the Queen's birthday.

1692. He composed the music for (1) "The Fairy Queen" (and published "Some select songs" from that opera); (2) "The Wife's excuse;" (3) "The Indian Queen;" (4) "The Indian Emperour;" (5) "Œdipus;" (6) "Cleomenes;" (7) "The marriage-hater match'd;" also an Ode, "Love's goddess sure was blind," for the Queen's birthday, and an Ode, "Hail, great Cecilia," for the anniversary of St. Cecilia.

1693. He composed a Commemoration Ode, "Great Parent, hail," for Trinity College, Dublin, and music for (1) "The old bachelor;" (2) "The Richmond heiress;" (3) "The maid's last prayer;" (4) "Henry the Second." Also an Ode, "Celebrate this festival," for the Queen's birthday.

1694. He composed music for the first and second parts of (1) "Don Quixote;" (2) "The married beau;" (3) "The double dealer;" (4) "The fatal marriage;" (5) "Love triumphant;" also the Te Deum and Jubilate in D for the festival of St. Cecilia, and an Ode, "Come, ye sons of art," for the Queen's birthday. "The art of descant," for John Playford.

1695. He composed Anthems for the funeral of Queen Mary, "Blessed is the man," and "Thou knowest, Lord." Two Latin Elegies on the Queen. A birthday Ode, "Who can from joy refrain?" for the Duke of Gloucester. Music for (1) "The Canterbury Guests;" (2) "The Mock Marriage;" (3) "The Rival Sisters;" (4) "Oroonoko;" (5) "The Knight of Malta;" (6) "Bonduca;" (7) "The third part of Don Quixote." Purcell died Nov. 21st; buried in Westminster Abbey, Nov. 26th.

1699. Purcell's mother died.

1706. Purcell's widow died.

1707. Purcell's daughter married to L. Welsted.

1710. Purcell's son, Edward, married.

1717. Edward Purcell and Daniel Purcell, the composer's brothers, died.

1726. Purcell's son, Edward, organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

1737. Edward Henry Purcell, grandson of the composer, a child of the Chapel Royal.

1738. Purcell's son, Edward, organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

1740. Edward died.

1753. Edward Henry Purcell, grandson of the composer organist of St. John, Hackney.

1765. Not re-elected to St. John, Hackney.

INDEX.

A.

Abdelazor, 26

Abingdon, Earl, 98

Abuse of musick, 66

Adamson, 10

Addison, 99

Akroy'd, 74

Albion and Albanius, 56, 57

Aldrich, 90

Alexander's Feast, 59, 60

Amblett, 10

Amphytryon, 51, 54, 55

Ancient vocal music, 44

Ancient Concerts, 33

Angello, 12

Anna, 33

Anne (Princess), 35, 40, 99

Anne (Queen), 86-98

Anthems, 94

Archer, 109

Arise, my muse, 55

Arne, 84

Arnold, 21, 111

Art of descant, 68

Artillery Company, 34

Aston, 66

Augusta's triumph, 99

Aurenge-Zebe, 26

B.

Baggs, 63

Baker, 106

Baldwin's Gardens, 81

Balter, 15

Baltzar, 91, 92

Bancroft, 67

Banister, 15, 44

Barcelona, 98

Barnard, 109

Barrington, 92

Barrow, 112

Bassani, 83, 92

Beaumont, 51, 73

Beckett, 15

Bedford, 66, 85

Beggars' Opera, 54, 64

Behn, 26

Behold I bring you, 30

Belinda, 33

Belk, 28

Bellerton, 51

Benedicite, 42

Bently, 31

Birthday Ode, 74

Bishop, 99

Blagrave, 15, 23, 112

Blessed are they, 47

Blessed be the Lord, 42

Blessed is he, 42

Blessed is the man, 71, 72

Blow, 20, 24, 25, 28, 31, 41, 42, 43, 68, 70, 73, 82, 85, 86, 111

Bolingbroke, 60

Bolton, 10

Bonduca, 73, 84

Bow down thine ear, 42

Bowen, 67

Boyce, 22, 71

Braddock, 10, 55, 112

Brady, 66

Bridge, 111

Bridgman, 40

Brief supplement to Colley Cibber, 66

Briscoe, 74

British heroine, 73

British Museum, 10, 86, 99

Britons strike home, 73

Brown, 81, 82, 83, 84

Brutus, 99

Bryne, 111

Burial office, 72

Burk, 32

Burlington, 16

Burnet, 45

Burney, 20, 25, 26, 61

Busby, 10, 80

Buswell, 112

By the croaking, 61

By the waters, 42

Byng, 25, 112

C.

Cæsar, 22

Calcott, 96

Cambridge, 36, 41

Canon, 68

Canterbury, 1, 28, 29

Canterbury guest, 73

Capelin, 79

Careless husband, 102

Carissimi, 23

Carr, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 52

Catch Club, 31

Catherine of Braganza, 35

Cecilia, _see_ St. C.

Celebrate this festival, 67

Celestial music, 50

Chamberlaine, 108

Chapel Royal, 9, 12, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 37, 41, 46, 52, 55, 61, 64, 84, 86, 108

Chapman, 10

Charles I., 1, 6, 17

Charles II., 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 28, 29, 30, 35, 56, 91, 98

Chelsey, 32

Chichester, 2

Childe, 18, 43

Choice collection of lessons, 79, 94

Christ Church, 4, 67, 68

Chronological memoranda, 113

Church, 112

Cibber, 47

Circe, 43

Clark, 82

Clarke, 25, 56, 99

Clayton, 15

Cockpit, 6

Cold and raw, 64, 65

Collection of Ayres, 79

Colman, 12

Come if you dare, 56

Come unto these yellow sands, 51

Come, ye sons of art, 69

Commonwealth, 1, 7

Condy, 10

Congreve, 67, 69, 100

Cooke, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 49, 111

Copyists, 25, 26, 27, 48, 55

Corelli, 83, 89, 92, 93

Corporation of Musique, 16

Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, 70

Courtvill, 74

Covent Garden, 63

Croft, 72, 111

Cromwell, 3, 4, 5, 7

Cross, 37, 63

Crotch, 39

Crowne, 69

Cynthia and Endymion, 99

D.

_Daily Advertizer_, 109

_Daily Courant_, 103

Dalham, 10

Damascene, 74

Davenant, 5, 43

Day, 111

Denmark (Prince of), 40, 50

Dering, 4

Dettingen Te Deum, 70, 71

Dido and Æneas, 32

Dioclesian, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 62, 76, 94

Distressed Innocence, 60

Diverting post, 101

Dog Tavern, 63

Dolben, 10, 40

Don Giovanni, 26

Don Quixote, 69, 74

Dorney, 15

Dorset Gardens, 48, 63

Double Dealer, 69

Downes, 54, 56, 57, 62

Draghi, 35, 36, 42

Dring, 61

Dryden, 26, 36, 44, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58, 69, 78

Drury Lane, 63

Dublin, 67

Duchess of Portsmouth, 30

Duke of York, 30, 32

Duke's Theatre, 31

Dulwich College, 33

D'Urfey, 31, 32, 50, 55, 60, 67, 69, 74, 75, 83, 90, 99

E.

Eccles, 100

Ecles, 79

Elizabeth (Queen), 1

Epicedium, 73

Epsom Wells, 26

Evelyn, 29

F.

Fairy Queen, 60, 62, 63, 95

Fantasias, 40

Farquhar, 101

Fatal marriage, 69

Finger, 100, 101

Finnell, 10

Fishbourne, 41

Fitzwilliam library, 36, 41

Flatman, 43

Fletcher, 51, 73

Fly bold rebellion, 39

Fool's preferment, 47, 48

Forcer, 40

French, 38

From hardy climes, 40

From these serene, 43

Fubbs, 30

Full fathom five, 51

Fyssher, David, 96, 97

Fyssher, John, 97

G.

Gates, 108-112

_Gentleman's Journal_, 65, 83

Gibbes, 10

Gibbons, 6, 10, 11, 18, 111, 112

Gibralter, 98

Gildon, 99

Gloucester (Duke), 74

Gloria Patri, 94

Gombell, 15

Goodgroome, 15

Goodison, 50, 67, 68

Gordian Knot, 46, 60

Gostling, 28, 29, 30, 31, 64, 65

Gould, 73

Grabut, 23, 56, 57

Great abuse of musick, 85

Greatorex, 111

Great parent hail, 67

Greene, 103, 104, 105

Gregory, 15

Grove, 100

H.

Halifax, 100

Hall, 36, 88

Hampton Court, 4

Handel, 70, 71

Harding, 10, 33

Hardinge, 15

Harley, 86

Hark, my Daridear, 44

Harmonia Sacra, 83, 84

Harris, 42, 102, 104

Hart, 104

Hawkins, 26, 48, 49, 50, 59, 60, 64, 65, 78, 81, 82, 102, 103, 108

Haydon, 104, 105

Hayes, 21

Haymarket, 101

Hear me, O Lord, 42

Henley, 99, 100

Henry II., 67

Heptenstall, 52, 54, 61, 62

Herbert, 73

Hesse (Prince), 98

Heureux, 109, 110

Hill, 11, 47

Hills, 15

Hilton, 64

Hingston, 4

Hobbs, 61

Hogarth, 61

Hooper, 111

Howard, 60, 78, 82

Howe, 111

Howell, 74, 99

Howes, 15

Hudgbutt, 61, 62

Hughes, 10

Humour of the age, 102

Humphreys, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

Hunt, 64

Hutton, 10

I.

I attempt from love's sickness, 61

Ibrahim XII., 99

If love's a sweet, 64

Incassum Lesbia, 73

Inconstant, 101

Indian Queen, 60, 61

In these delightful, 26, 94

Isum or Isham, 103, 104, 105

Italian, 38, 53, 68, 89

Italian songs, 18

Italy, 22, 23, 35

I was glad, 43

I will love Thee, 56

I will sing, 42

J.

Jack, thou'rt a toper, 73, 82

James I., 1

James II., 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 57, 99

Jerusalem is built, 42

Johnson, 21

Jones, 10

Jubilate, 69, 94

Judgment of Paris, 100

K.

Killigrew, 10

King, 6, 90

King Arthur, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62

King's choir, 43

King's instrumental musick, 43

King's musique, 16

Knight of Malta, 73

L.

Lamentation for the death of Mr. H. Purcell, 102

Larken, 2

Last song (Purcell's), 45, 74

Lawes, 6, 13

Lee, 60

Leeve, 111

Leicester Fields, 32

Leighton, 4

Let Cæsar and Urania, 4, 5

Let God arise, 42

Let the dreadful, 69

Leveridge, 99

Libertine, 26

Lileburlero, 45, 46

Lilley, 15

Liverpool, 33

Locke, 6, 9, 15, 20, 26, 27, 35

_London Gazette_, 32, 36, 51, 99, 100

Lord is King, 48

Lord Mayor, 34

Lord, who can tell, 42

Lovely Albina, 75

Love's a blind Goddess, 64

Love's Paradise, 100

Love triumphant, 69

Low, 109

Lowe, 33

Lully, 22, 23, 89

M.

Macbeth, 20, 21, 26

Macfarren, 33

Mackay, 89

Madge, 15

Magbeth, 102

Magdalen College, 4, 98, 99

Magnæ Brittannia, 108

Maid's last prayer, 67

Maidwell's, 50

March, 45

Marriage hater, 60

Married beau, 69

Marsh, 12, 15

Mary (Princess), 35

Mary (Queen), 64, 71, 73, 76

Massacre of Paris, 51

Masters of Choristers of Westminster Abbey, 111

May, 61, 62

May her blest example, 64

Memoires of musick, 56, 85

Memoirs of the musical drama, 61

Merchant Taylors, 34, 50

Mercurius Rusticus, 3

Middleton, 21

Midsummer Night's Dream, 60

Milton, 3

Mock marriage, 73

Mohun, 47

Montague, 98

Motteux, 99

Mountford, 47

Mountjoy, 98

Mozart, 26

Muses Mercury, 101

Musica Antiqua, 21

Musical Antiquarian Society, 33, 59, 67, 73

Music copyists of Westminster Abbey, 112

Musick's handmaid, 46

My beloved spake, 42

My heart is inditing, 43

N.

Needham, 49, 50

New Ayres and dialogues, 20

New Irish tune, 46

New world in the moon, 99

Nichol, 66

Nicholas, 14

North, 56, 85

Norton, 99, 100

Now the maids, 63

O.

Ode for the Queen, 60, 64, 69

Ode on Purcell, 76

Odive custos, 73

Œdipus, 62

Of all the instruments, 33

O God thou art, 42

O God thou hast, 42

Old bachelor, 67

Oldmixon, 100

O Lord our governour, 42

Organists of Westminster Abbey, 111

Orlando Furioso, 101

Oroonoko, 73

Orpheus and Euridice, 101

Orpheus Britannicus, 50, 65, 78, 78, 79, 82, 87

P.

Palmer, 110

Paris, 22

Parson among the peas, 90

Parsons, 111

Pastoral dialogue, 55

Pate, 63

Patence, 109

Pepys, 9, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 27

Perce, 28

Perrinchief, 10

Peters, 79

Phaeton, 99

Pills to purge melancholy, 90

Pix, 99

Playford, 36, 37, 40, 46, 51, 62, 68, 94

Portman, 111, 112

Postboy, 63, 105

Pourselle, 89

Powell, 99

Prichard, 34

Priest, 33, 56, 62

Prophetess, 51

Purcell ancestry, 96

Purcell, Anne, 107

Purcell, Daniel, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107

Purcell, Edward, 50, 79, 80, 97, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108

Purcell, Edward Henry, 107, 108, 109, 110

Purcell, Elizabeth, 97

Purcell, Frances, 34, 79, 80, 106, 107

Purcell Henry (senior), 9, 10, 12, 20, 21, 97, 112

Purcell, Henry, 7, 8, 12, 17, 20, 23 _et sequentes_, 108, 111, 112

Purcell, Henry (infant), 106

Purcell, John Baptista, 35, 106

Purcell, Katherine, 97

Purcell, Mary Peters, 79, 106

Purcell, Matthew, 34

Purcell, Mrs., 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 94, 106, 107

Purcell, Thomas, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 29, 34, 35, 44, 106

Purcell Society, 51

Pursell, George, 96

Pursell, John, 96, 97

Pursell, Nicholas, 96, 97

Purshell, Thomas, 96

Q.

Queen, 4, 5

Queen's birthday ode, 67

Queen's library, 102

Queen's Theatre, 48, 54

Quickstep, 45, 46

Quire of fair ladies, 55

R.

Ravenscroft, 73

Reading, 63

Remember not, Lord, 42

Restoration, 6

Richmond, 80

Richmond heiress, 67

Rimbault, 10, 20, 27, 44, 73

Rival sisters, 73

Robert, 74

Robinson, 111

Rochester, 2

Roger, 89

Rogers, 98

Rook, 98

Roscius Anglicanus, 50, 56, 62

Royal Society of Musicians, 14, 107

Rutland House, 6

S.

Sacheverell, 102

Sands, 2

Sale, 97

Scott, 60, 73

Secret service, 22

Sedley, 64

Settle, 60, 99

Shadwell, 26, 28, 51

Shakespeare, 51, 60

Shaw, 22

Shore, 99

Short, 104

Shorter, 10

Siege of Rhodes, 19

Simpson, 68

Sing, all ye muses, 69

Singleton, 15

Smith, 10, 21, 42, 43, 93

Somerset (Duke), 52

Somerset House, 96

Sonatas, 36, 37, 40, 79, 94, 102

Sound the trumpet, 45, 55

South, 10

Southerne, 60, 67, 69, 73

Southwick, 100

_Spectator_, 101

Sprat, 48

Stagins, 14, 15, 43

Stationers' Hall, 65, 101

St. Andrew, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107

St. Ann's Lane, 7, 37

St. Cecilia, 36, 40, 41, 60, 65, 66, 69, 75, 76, 95, 99, 101

St. Clement, 107

St. Edmund, 108

St. George, 86

St. James's Palace, 59

St. John, 60, 108, 109

St. Margaret, 25, 97, 106, 107

St. Martin, 34

St. Mary, 101

St. Paul's Cathedral, 25, 64, 70, 72

Strange, 15

Sweet tyraness, 20

Swifter Isis, 33

T.

Talbot, 76

Tate, 32, 46, 65, 67, 102

Taylor, 59, 95, 111

Taylour, 48, 112

Te Deum, 60, 69, 70, 71, 87, 90, 94

Tempest, 51

Temple, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 51, 63

Theatre Ayres, 59

Theodosius, 31

They that go down to the sea, 30

Thou knowest, Lord, 71, 72

Three dukes of Dunstable, 47

Timon of Athens, 28

'Tis nature's voice, 66

To arms, 73

Tonson, 54, 100

Tony Aston, 66

Tovey, 80

Townsend, 18

Trelawney, 98

Trinity College, 67, 76, 106

Trotter, 101

Trye, 112

Tucker, 27, 28, 29, 112

Tudway, 72, 86

Turle, 77, 111

Turner, 20, 28

Two daughters, 56

Tyrannick love, 44

U.

Unhappy penitent, 101

Utrecht Te Deum, 70

V.

Vanbrugh, 101

Vanderman, 112

Verbruggen, 67, 99

Viol da gamba, 31

Virgins are alike, 54

Virtuous wife, 30

W.

Walsh, 70

Ward, 109

Warwick, 13

Watkins, 15

Welcome glorious morn, 60

Welcome song, 32, 33, 34, 39, 43, 44, 48, 50

Weldon, 100

Welsted, 106

Westminster Abbey, 3, 9, 10, 12, 16, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 43, 44, 45, 48, 50, 52, 55, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 80, 84, 97

Westminster Palace, 14

Westminster School, 106

Wharton, 45

Wheatley, 59

Whitall, 7

White, 111

Whitehall, 7, 18, 23

Whitt, 111

Who can from joy refrain, 74

Why are all the muses, 44

Wife's excuse, 60

William and Mary, 48, 50, 55, 64

Williams, 111

Wilson, 6, 16

Winchester, 2, 11

Wise, 20

Witch, 21

Wood, 4, 91

Y.

Yalden, 99

Ye tuneful muses, 44

Ye twice ten hundred, 61

York Buildings, 99

Yorkshire feast, 50

Young, 104, 105

THE END.

LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

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