Henry Purcell | Octoopus

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Abdelazer

String Orchestra, Soprano, Continuo Incidental music Baroque

Z. 570 15 min

Dido and Aeneas

Vocal Ensemble, Mixed Chorus, Orchestra Operas Baroque

Z. 626

The Fairy Queen

Vocal Ensemble, Mixed Chorus, Orchestra Operas Baroque

Z. 629 2 h

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443 works of Purcell on Octoopus, by form.

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Songs 164 works

Z. 196 Tell me, some pitying angel 1693 · 1 version

Z. 322 Celestial Music Did the Gods Inspire 1689 · 1 version 19 min

Z. 326 From Those Serene and Rapturous Joys 1684 · 1 version 23 min

Z. 337 The Summer's Absence Unconcerned We Bear 1682 · 1 version 16 min

Z. 341 What Shall Be Done in Behalf of the Man 1682 · 1 version 15 min

Z. 343 Why, Why Are All the Muses Mute? 1685 · 1 version 28 min

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Z. 344 Ye Tuneful Muses 1686 · 1 version 23 min

Z. 352 Ah! Cruel Nymph 1 version

Z. 353 Ah! How Pleasant 'Tis to Love 1688 · 1 version

Z. 354 Ah! What Pains 1 version

Z. 355 Amidst the Shades and Cool Refreshing Streams 1687 · 1 version

Z. 356 Amintas, to My Grief I See 1679 · 1 version

Z. 357 Amintor, Heedless of his Flocks 1681 · 1 version

Z. 358 Ask Me to Love No More 1694 · 1 version

Z. 359 A Thousand Sev'ral Ways I Tried 1684 · 1 version

Z. 360 Bacchus Is a Power Divine 1 version

Z. 361 Beware, Poor Shepherds 1684 · 1 version

Z. 362 Cease, Anxious World 1687 · 1 version

Z. 363 Cease, O My Sad Soul 1678 · 1 version

Z. 364 Celia's Fond, Too Long I've Loved Her 1694 · 1 version

Z. 365 Corinna Is Divinely Fair 1692 · 1 version

Z. 367 Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive 1685 · 1 version

Z. 368 Farewell, All Joys 1685 · 1 version

Z. 369 Fly Swift, Ye Hours 1692 · 1 version

Z. 370 From Silent Shades 1683 · 1 version

Z. 371 The Knotting Song 1695 · 3 versions

Z. 372 He Himself Courts His Own Ruin 1684 · 1 version

Z. 373 How Delightful's the Fife of an Innocent Swain 1 version

Z. 374 How I Sigh when I Think of the Charms 1681 · 1 version

Z. 375 I Came, I Saw, and Was Undone 1 version

Z. 376 I Envy Not a Monarch's Fate 1693 · 1 version

Z. 377 I Fain Would Be Free 1 version

Z. 378 If Grief Has Any Power to Kill 1685 · 1 version

Z. 379 If Music Be the Food of Love 1692 · 2 versions

Z. 380 If Pray'rs and Tears 1 version

Z. 381 I Lov'd Fair Celia D minor 1694 · 1 version

Z. 382 I Love and I Must 1 version

Z. 383 Incassum Lesbia 1695 · 1 version

Z. 384 In Cloris All Soft Charms 1684 · 1 version

Z. 385 In Vain We Dissemble 1685 · 1 version

Z. 386 I Resolve Against Cringing 1679 · 1 version

Z. 387 I Saw that You Were Grown So High 1678 · 1 version

Z. 388 I Take No Pleasure in the Sun's Bright Beams 1681 · 1 version

Z. 389 Leave these Useless Arts in Loving 1 version

Z. 390 Let Each Gallant Heart 1683 · 1 version

Z. 391 Let Formal Lovers Still Pursue 1687 · 1 version

Z. 392 Love Arms Himself in Celia's Eyes 1 version

Z. 393 Love Is Now Become a Trade 1685 · 1 version

Z. 394 Lovely Albina's Come Ashore 1 version

Z. 395 Love's Power in My Heart Shall Find No Compliance 1688 · 1 version

Z. 396 Love, Thou Can'st Hear 1695 · 1 version

Z. 397 More Love or More Disdain I Crave 1678 · 1 version

Z. 399 My Heart, Wherever You Appear 1685 · 1 version

Z. 400 Not All My Torments Can Your Pity Move 1 version

Z. 401 No Watch, Dear Celia, Just Is Found 1693 · 1 version

Z. 402 O! Fair Cedaria, Hide those Eyes 1 version

Z. 403 O! How Happy's He 1690 · 1 version

Z. 404 Olinda in the Shades Unseen 1 version

Z. 405 On the Brow of Richmond Hill 1692 · 1 version

Z. 407 Pastora's Beauties when Unblown 1681 · 1 version

Z. 408 Phyllis, I Can Ne'er Forgive It 1688 · 1 version

Z. 409 Phillis, Talk no more of Passion 1685 · 1 version

Z. 410 Pious Celinda Goes to Prayers 1695 · 1 version

Z. 411 Rashly I Swore I Would Disown 1683 · 1 version

Z. 412 Sawney Is a Bonny Lad 1694 · 1 version

Z. 413 She Loves and She Confesses Too 1683 · 1 version

Z. 414 She that Would Gain a Faithful Lover 1695 · 1 version

Z. 415 She, Who My Poor Heart Possesses 1683 · 1 version

Z. 416 Since One Poor View Has Drawn My Heart 1681 · 1 version

Z. 417 Spite of the Godhead, Powerful Love 1687 · 1 version

Z. 418 Sweet, Be No Longer Sad 1678 · 1 version

Z. 420 Sylvia, Now Your Scorn Give Over 1688 · 1 version

Z. 421 The Fatal Hour Comes On 1 version

Z. 422 They Say You're Angry 1685 · 1 version

Z. 423 This Poet Sings the Trojan Wars 1 version

Z. 424 Through Mournful Shades and Solitary Groves 1684 · 1 version

Z. 425 Turn Then Thine Eyes 1 version

Z. 426 Urge Me No More 1 version

Z. 427 We Now, My Thyrsis, Never Find 1693 · 1 version

Z. 428 What a Sad Fate 1 version

Z. 429 What Can We Poor Females Do? 1694 · 1 version

Z. 430 When First Amintas Sued for a Kiss 1687 · 1 version

Z. 431 When First My Shepherdess and I 1687 · 1 version

Z. 432 When Her Languishing Eyes Said Love 1681 · 1 version

Z. 433 When I a Lover Pale Do See 1678 · 1 version

Z. 434 When My Aemelia Smiles 1 version

Z. 435 When Strephon Found His Passion Vain 1683 · 1 version

Z. 436 When Thyrsis Did the Splendid Eye 1675 · 1 version

Z. 437 While Thyrsis, Wrapt in Downy Sleep 1685 · 1 version

Z. 438 Whilst Cynthia Sung 1686 · 1 version

Z. 440 Who But a Slave Can Well Express 1 version

Z. 441 Who Can Behold Florella's Charms? 1695 · 1 version

Z. 442 Why So Serious, Why So Grave? 1 version

Z. 443 Ye Happy Swains 1685 · 1 version

Z. 444 Stript of Their Green Our Groves Appear 1692 · 1 version

Z. 462 Draw Near, You Lovers 1 version

Z. 463 Farewell, Ye Rocks 1685 · 1 version

Z. 464 Gentle Shepherds, You that Know 1687 · 1 version

Z. 465 High on a Throne of Glitt'ring Ore 1690 · 1 version

Z. 466 Let Us, Kind Lesbia, Give Away 1684 · 1 version

Z. 467 Musing on Cares of Human Fate 1685 · 1 version

Z. 468 The Concealment 1 version

Z. 469 Scarce Had the Rising Sun Appear'd 1679 · 1 version

Z. 470 See How the Fading Glories of the Year 1689 · 1 version

Z. 471 Since the Pox or the Plague 1679 · 1 version

Z. 472 What Hope for Us Remains Now He Is Gone? 1679 · 1 version

Z. 473 Young Thyrsis' Fate 1 version

Z. 480 Above the Tumults of a Busy State 1683 · 1 version

Z. 481 A Grasshopper and a Fly 1 version

Z. 482 Alas, How Barbarous We Are 1 version

Z. 483 Come, Dear Companions of th' Arcadian Fields 1686 · 1 version

Z. 484 Come, Lay by All Care 1685 · 1 version

Z. 485 Dulcibella, Whene'er I Sue for a Kiss 1694 · 1 version

Z. 486 Fair Cloe, My Breast So Alarms 1692 · 1 version

Z. 487 Fill the Bowl with Rosy Wine 1687 · 1 version

Z. 489 Go Tell Amynta, Gentle Swain 1 version

Z. 490 Haste, Gentle Charon 1 version

Z. 491 Has Yet Your Breast No Pity Learn'd? 1688 · 1 version

Z. 492 Hence, Fond Deceiver 1687 · 1 version

Z. 493 Here's to Thee, Dick 1688 · 1 version

Z. 494 How Great Are the Blessings 1686 · 1 version

Z. 495 How Sweet Is the Air and Refreshing 1687 · 1 version

Z. 496 In All Our Cynthia's Shining Sphere 1 version

Z. 497 In Some Kind Dream 1687 · 1 version

Z. 498 I Saw Fair Cloris All Alone 1687 · 1 version

Z. 499 I Spy Celia 1687 · 1 version

Z. 500 Julia, Your Unjust Disdain 1687 · 1 version

Z. 501 Let Hector, Achilles and Each Brave Commander 1689 · 1 version

Z. 502 Lost Is My Quiet Forever 1691 · 1 version

Z. 503 Nestor, Who Did to Thrice Man's Age Attain 1689 · 1 version

Z. 505 Oft Am I by the Women Told 1687 · 1 version

Z. 506 Oh! What a Scene Does Entertain My Sight 1682 · 1 version 7 min

Z. 507 Saccharissa's Grown Old 1686 · 1 version

Z. 508 See Where She Sits 1683 · 1 version 6 min

Z. 509 Sit Down, My Dear Sylvia 1685 · 1 version

Z. 510 Soft Notes and Gently Raised 1685 · 1 version

Z. 511 Sylvia, Thou Brighter Eye of Night 1 version

Z. 512 Sylvia, 'Tis True You're Fair 1686 · 1 version

Z. 513 There Never Was So Wretched Lover as I 1 version

Z. 514 Though My Mistress Be Fair 1685 · 1 version

Z. 515 Trip It, Trip It in a Ring 1 version

Z. 516 Underneath this Myrtle Shade 1692 · 1 version

Z. 517 Were I to Choose the Greatest Bliss 1689 · 1 version

Z. 518 What Can We Poor Females Do? 1 version

Z. 519 When Gay Philander Left the Plain 1 version

Z. 520 When, Lovely Phyllis, Thou Art Kind 1 version

Z. 521 When Myra Sings 1695 · 1 version

Z. 522 When Teucer from His Father Fled 1686 · 1 version

Z. 523 While Bolts and Bars My Days Control 1 version

Z. 524 While You for Me Alone Had Charms 1 version

Z. 525 Why, My Daphne, Why Complaining? 1691 · 1 version

Z. 541 Hark, Damon, hark 1683 · 1 version 6 min

Z. 542 Hark, how the wild musicians sing 1683 · 1 version 9 min

Z. 543 How Pleasant Is this Flowery Plain 1682 · 1 version

Z. 544 If ever I more riches did desire 1686 · 1 version 12 min

Z. 546 Tis Wine Was Made to Rule the Day 1 version

Z. 761 Beneath a Dark, a Melancholy Grove 1 version

ZD 171 A Poor Blind Woman 1 version

ZD 172 When the Cock Begins to Crow 1 version

ZS 68 Mad Tom 2 versions

ZS 69 Sweet Tyranness, I Now Resign 1667 · 1 version

ZT 694 A Song Tune C major 2 versions

ZT 695 A Song Tune C major 1687 · 3 versions 1 min

Sweet Tyranness, I Now Resign, ZS 70 1678 · 1 version

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