Scope and Contents: This collection consists of five manuscript scores entitled Miscellaneous Collection of Songs from Pope's Eloisa to Abelard. The scores, bound separately but in the same unidentified hand, are for voice, first violin, second violin, viola, and basso. Each contains works by Thomas Arne, Samuel Arnold, Jackson of Exeter, Henry Purcell, and Rosina Sacchini. The unknown creator also set selections from Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard to music by George Frideric Handel.
Each volume has the bookplate of Edward Littleton, Baronet.
List of Songs
1. Go, gentle gales (Jackson of Exeter)
2. With Delia ever could I stay (Jackson of Exeter)
3. Blow, blow thou Winter's Wind (Thomas Arne)
4. Ye Shepherds so chearfull and Gay (Jackson of Exeter)
5. The heavy hours are almost past (Jackson of Exeter)
6. Ah! Why must words my Flame reveal? (Jackson of Exeter)
7. All I wish in her obtaining (Thomas Arne)
8. No stars again shall hurt you from above (Henry Purcell)
9. Henry cull'd the flowrets bloom (Rosina Sacchini)
10. Come Hope thou Queen (Samuel Arnold)
11-15. From Pope's Eloisa to Abelard (George Frideric Handel)
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