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Eccles: Masques and Dramatick Operas

Series: Baroque Era  Publisher: A-R Editions
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John Eccles
Masques and Dramatick Operas
The Rape of Europa by Jupiter, The Loves of Mars and Venus, The Mad Lover, and The British Enchanters

Edited by Tim Neufeldt

B243 Eccles: Masques and Dramatick Operas
978-1-9872-0918-1 Full Score (2025) 9x12, xx + 213 pp.
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Featuring music by John Eccles, Gottfried Finger, Bartholomew Isaack, and anonymous composers, the masques The Rape of Europa by Jupiter (1694) and The Loves of Mars and Venus (1696) and the dramatick operas The Mad Lover (1700), and The British Enchanters (1706) come from a particularly tumultuous period of English drama and are representative of the many and varied musical drama genres popular in London’s theaters at the turn of the eighteenth century, just before Italian opera rose in popularity there. The British Enchanters, based on the chivalric romance of Amadis de Gaule, was one of the last dramatick operas and thus one of the last representatives of what in its time was considered a truly British form of music drama. This edition presents all the surviving music for all four of these works, along with their corresponding playtexts and critical commentary.
The Rape of Europa by Jupiter
No. 1. Air: “Appear all, appear” (Herse)
No. 2. Air: “Still I’m grieving” (Europa)
No. 3. Air—Chorus: “Give then royal maid” (Aglaura, Chorus)
No. 4. Dialogue: “At London che’ve been” (Coridon and His Mistress)
 
The Loves of Mars and Venus
Prologue
No.1. Air—Chorus: “Come all with moving songs” (Erato, Chorus), Gottfried Finger
No. 2. Air—Duet: “Love alone can here alarm us” (One of Erato’s Followers, Followers of Mars), Gottfried Finger
No. 3. Air: “Scorn though beauty frowns to tremble” (Erato), Gottfried Finger
No. 4. Air—Air: “To double the sports” (Thalia, Terpsichore), Gottfried Finger
Act 1
No. 5. Air: “To meet her Mars” (Aglaia)
No. 6. Duet—Duet—Chorus: “Fly ye lazy hours” (Venus, Cupid, Chorus)
No. 7. Duet—Chorus: “Thou plague of my life” (Vulcan, Venus, Chorus)
Act 2
No. 8. Trio: “My Mars” (Venus, Mars, Cupid)
No. 9. Duet: “How sweet” (Venus, Mars)
Act 3
No. 10. Air: “See Vulcan, Jealousy appears” (Jealousy), Gottfried Finger
No. 11. Duet: “Yield” (Mars, Venus), Gottfried Finger
No.12. Air: “Thus all unequal unions break” (Cupid), Gottfried Finger
 
The Mad Lover
Instrumental Music
I. Overture
II. Air
III. Air
IV. Slow Air
V. Air
VI. Jigg
VII. Air
VIII. Air
IX. Air
Act 2: Martial Welcome
No. 1. Duet: “The loud alarms of war” (Bellona, Mars)
No. 2. Air: “When the whole world amazed” (Mars)
No. 3. Air: “Let all be gay” (Shepherdess)
Act 3: Wine and Love
No. 4. Chorus: “See, great Bacchus, see” (Chorus)
No. 5. Air: “Cease of Cupid to complain” (Cupid)
Version from A
Version from C
No. 6. Duet: “Appear all ye lovers” (Cupid, Bacchus)
No. 7. Dialogue: “Now women I scorn you” (Gentleman, Woman)
Act 4: Acis and Galatea
No. 8. Air: “Come ye nymphs and ev’ry swain” (Acis)
No. 9. Air: “Know I’ve sworn, and swear again” (Acis)
No. 10. Air: “Must then a faithful lover go” (Acis)
No. 11. Air: “Who would be made a wife” (Acis)
No. 12. Duet: “Ah! How lovely” (Acis, Galatea)
No. 13. Duet—Chorus: “Advance, gay tenants of the plain” (Acis, Galatea, Chorus)
 
The British Enchanters; or, No Magic Like Love
Act 1
No. 1. Prelude, William Corbett
No. 2. Overture, William Corbett
No. 3. Air: “Sound the trumpet” (Urganda)
No. 4. Air: “List’ning she turns” (Soprano), Bartholomew Isaack
No. 5. Air (Reprise): “Sound the trumpet” (Urganda)
No. 6. Minuet, William Corbett
No. 7. Air: “When with adoring looks” (Soprano), Bartholomew Isaack
Act 2
No. 8. Air: “Thoughtful nights” (Soprano), Bartholomew Isaack
No. 9. Boree, William Corbett
No. 10. Air: “When love is away” (Shepherdess)
No. 11. Chorus: “Hail to Love and welcome joy” (Shepherds, Shepherdesses)
No. 12. Air: “Now mortal prepare” (Shepherd), Bartholomew Isaack
Act 3
No. 13. Air: “Plague us not” (Libertine)
No. 14. March, William Corbett
No. 15. Air: “Happy isle” (Tenor), Anonymous
No. 16. March, William Corbett
No. 17. Chorus: “To fortune give immortal praise” (Chorus), Anonymous
Act 4
No. 18. Minuet, William Corbett
Act 5
No. 19. Air: “Make room for the combat” (Soprano)
No. 20. Air: “Help, th’ unpracticed conqu’ror cries” (Soprano)No. 21. Air, William Corbett
No. 22. Air, William Corbett
Tim Neufeldt is an instructional librarian and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in musicology in 2006 and his master’s degree in library science in 2010. Dr. Neufeldt is active in both fields, with recent articles appearing in Music Reference Services Quarterly, The Journal of British Studies, and MLA Notes. His current research interests include information literacy, and music societies and sheet music publications in early Canada (ca. 1867–1920).
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