Eccles: Incidental Music, Part 3
Series: Baroque Era Publisher: A-R Editions
This edition is part of the collection Eccles: Works
Incidental Music, Part 3
Plays R-W, Independent Songs and Catches
Edited by Alan D. Howard
B237 Eccles: Incidental Music, Part 3
978-1-9872-0856-6
Full Score (2023)
9x12, xxiii + 282 pp.
$320.00
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John Eccles’s active theatrical career spanned a period of about sixteen years, though he continued to compose occasionally for the theater after his semi-retirement in 1707. During his career he wrote incidental music for more than seventy plays, writing songs that fit perfectly within their dramatic contexts and that offered carefully tailored vehicles for his singers’ talents while remaining highly accessible in tone. This edition includes music composed by Eccles for plays beginning with the letters R–W, along with secular songs and catches by Eccles that were not associated with plays. These plays were fundamentally collaborative ventures, and multiple composers often supplied the music; thus, this edition includes all the known songs and instrumental items for each play. Plot summaries of the plays are given along with relevant dialogue cues, and the songs are given in the order in which they appear in the drama (when known).
(Music by John Eccles unless otherwise indicated)
The Richmond Heiress; or, A Woman Once in the Right, Thomas D’Urfey
By those pigsneys
Maiden fresh as a rose, Anonymous
Of noble race was Shinkin, Anonymous
Stubborn church division, ?Solomon Eccles
Fie, Jockey, Anonymous
The Royal Mischief, Delarivier Manley
Unguarded lies the wishing maid
The Self-Conceit; or, The Mother Made a Property, Author unknown
Come, Phyllis, never sigh nor mourn, John Church
Oh! The mighty pow’r of love
When first to bright Maria’s charms
The She-Gallants, George Granville
Instrumental Music, Gottfried Finger
So well Corinna likes the joy
While Phillis does drink
She Ventures and He Wins, “Ariadne”
Fair Belinda’s youthful charms
Restless in thoughts
Oft have you told me
Look down, great Hymen
She Would If She Could, George Etherege
Instrumental Music, William Byron, 4th Baron Byron
Jig, Matthew Locke
She Would If She Could, Anonymous
To little or no purpose
The Spanish Friar; or, The Double Discovery, John Dryden
Instrumental Music, Robert King
Look down, ye blessed above
Farewell ungrateful traitor, Simon Pack
Silvia, how could you e’er mistrust
The Stage-Coach, George Farquhar (and ?Peter Motteux)
Let’s sing of stage-coaches
The Surprised Lovers, Author unknown
When first I saw her charming face
Troilus and Cressida; or, Truth Found Too Late, John Dryden (after Shakespeare)
Can life be a blessing, Thomas Farmer
Can life be a blessing
The Unnatural Brother, Edward Filmer
For you who are rid by the fury
The Villain, Thomas Porter
Dance, Anonymous
Find me a lonely cave
The Way of the World, William Congreve
Instrumental Music
Country Dance, Anonymous
New Way of the World, Anonymous
Love’s but the frailty of the mind
Women Will Have Their Wills, Author unknown
Belinda’s pretty, pleasing form
Love is a god
Songs
Cruel Amynta
Daphne, to prove my heart is true
Fair Amoret is gone astray
If wine and music have the power
I gently touched her hand
Since art and wisdom cannot stay
Strephon, whose person every grace was careful to adorn?
Trust not to oath, that subtle snare
’Twas fancy gave Alexis charms
Would the jolly old Bacchus look sparkling and fine
Ye gentle gales that fan the air
Catches
Confusion to the power of Cupid
Ding dong bell
Hark! Harry, ’tis late
In seventeen hundred, and three told twice over
My man John
Appendix 1: Instrumental Music Associated with The Richmond Heiress
Appendix 2: Dance from an Unknown Play
Appendix 3: Song from Wonders in the Sun; or, The Kingdom of the Birds (Thomas D’Urfey, 1706)
Alan Howard is Lecturer in Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music. He is co-editor of the Oxford University Press journal Early Music, a Purcell Society Committee member and a general editor of The Works of John Eccles. His has published articles in the Journal of the Royal Music Association, Music & Letters, Early Music, the Musical Times and numerous edited collections, and has prepared critical editions for Stainer & Bell (The Purcell Society, Musica Britannica) and A-R Editions. His book Compositional Artifice in the Music of Henry Purcell was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.