Composition: English Songs, HWV 228 (Handel, George Frideric)

Title English songs
Creators George Frideric Handel (composer)
Opus HWV 228
Instrumentation soprano and continuo
tenor and continuo
soprano
Number of movements 24
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Composed 1719
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Composition types Songs
Language English
Period Baroque
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Sections

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1. The unhappy Lovers. As Celia's fatal arrows flew — — —
2. Charming Cloris. Ask not the cause / The poor Shepherd. The Sun was sunk beneath the Hills — — —
3. As on a Sunshine Summer's Day — — —
4. Bacchus Speech in Praise of Wine. Bacchus one day gayly striding — — —
5. The Polish Minuet or Miss Kitty Grevil's Delight. Charming is your shape and air — — —
6. The Sailor's Complaint. Come and listen to my ditty / Hosier's Ghost. As near Portobello lying — — —
7. Di godere ha speranza il mio core / Oh my dearest, my lovely creature — — —
8. The forsaken Maid's Complaint. Faithless ungrateful / The slighted Swain. Cloe proves false — — —
9. From scourging rebellion or A Song on the Victory obtained over the Rebels by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland — — —
10. The forsaken Nymph. Guardian Angels now protect me — — —
11. I like the am'rous Youth that's free — — —
12. Phillis. My fair, ye Swains, is gone astray — — —
13. Not, Cloe, that I better am — — —
14. Strephon's Complaint of Love. Oh cruel Tyrant Love — — —
15. The Satyr's Advice to a Stock-Jobber. On the shore of a low ebbing sea / Ye Swains that are courting a Maid / Molly Mogg. Says my uncle, I pray you discover — — —
16. Phillis be kind and hear — — —
17. Phillis advised. Phillis the lovely — — —
18. Stand round, my brave boys or Song made for the Gentlemen Volunteers of the City of London — — —
19. The faithful Maid / The Melancholy Nymph. 'Twas when the seas were roaring — — —
20. The Rapture / Matchless Clarinda. When I survey Clarinda's charms / Venus now leaves — — —
21. The Death of the Stag. When Phoebus the tops of the Hills does adorn — — —
22. Who to win a Woman's favour — — —
23. An Answer to Collin's Complaint. Ye winds to whome Collin complains — — —
24. Yes, I'm in love — — —

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Scores

Details Section Type Publisher Date File
view Bacchus's Speech in Praise of Wine (No.4) — — — Complete Score · view
view Bacchus's Speech in Praise of Wine (No.4) — — — Complete score (with continuo realization for harpsichord) · view
Engraving files (M-Tx, TeX) · view
view The Sailors's Complaint (No.6) — — — Complete Score · view
view The Sailors's Complaint (No.6) — — — Complete Score (with continuo realization for harpsichord) · view
view Strephon's Complaint of Love (No.14) — — — Complete Score · view
view Strephon's Complaint of Love (No.14) — — — Complete Score (with continuo realization for harpsichord) · view
view The Satyrs's Advice to a Stock-jobber (No.15) — — — Complete Score · view
view The Satyrs's Advice to a Stock-jobber (No.15) — — — Complete Score (with continuo realization for harpsichord) · view
view The Rapture (No.20) — — — Complete Score · view
view The Rapture (No.20) — — — Complete Score (with continuo realization for harpsichord) · view

Recordings/Performances

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view Synthesized Bacchus's Speech in Praise of Wine (No.4) · file
The Sailors's Complaint (No.6) · file
Strephon's Complaint of Love (No.14) · file
The Satyr's Advice to a Stock-jobber (No.15) · file
The Rapture (No.20) · file
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