Songs, duets, glees, and part-songs : manuscript, 1778-1784.

Record ID: 
115927
Accession number: 
Cary 449
Creator: 
Wesley, Samuel, 1766-1837.
Biographical Data: 
British composer and organist.
Title: 
Songs, duets, glees, and part-songs : manuscript, 1778-1784.
Uniform title: 
Vocal music. Selections
Date: 
1778-1784.
Contents: 

For four voices: "Circle the bowl with freshest roses" (glee, 7 September 1782).
For three voices (some with bass instrument): "Thou happy wretch" (glee, from Young, Night Thoughts, 25 September 1783) -- "There are by fond mama supplied" (1778?) -- "Harsh and untuneful are the notes" (glee, from Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 31 May 1783) -- "Goosy goosy gander" (1781?) -- "Adieu ye soft scenes of delight" (glee, 1781) -- "When Orpheus went down to the regions below" (1781?) -- "When first thy soft lips" (glee, 24 June 1783) -- "Nella casa troverte."
For two voices with bass instrument: "Since pow'rful love directs thine eye" (1783) -- "Sweet constellations" (1782).
For one voice with bass instrument: "Louisa view the melting tears" -- "Adieu ye jovial youths" (Shenstone, 27 February 1783) -- "The world my dear Mira is full of deciet" (1784) -- "Yes Daphne in your face" (1781) -- "When we see a lover languish" (1783) -- "Too late for redress" (13 September 1783) -- "Pale mirror of resplendent light" (September 1783) -- "Love's but the frailty of the mind" (4 April 1783) -- "O how to bid my life adieu" (14 July 1783) -- "Parting to death we will compare" (12 July 1783) -- "The white robed hours" (24 September 1783) -- "Alone on the sea-beat rock" (from Ossian, Armin's Lamentation, 7 May 1784) -- "Flutt'ring spread thy purple pinions" (from Swift, A Love Song in the Modern Taste, 21 June 1783).

Notes: 

Settings of poems by Edward Young, Laurence Sterne, James Macpherson and Jonathan Swift.

Associated names: 

Young, Edward, 1683-1765.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.