William Boyce - Fill with cooling juice the bowl!

Solomon - a Serenata
William Boyce

13. Air

She:

Fill with cooling juice the bowl!
Assuage the fever in my soul!
With copious draughts my thirst remove,
And soothe the heart that's sick of love.

She: Bronwen Mills

The Parley of Instruments
Roy Goodman

In the early Eighteenth century the soprano voice was often paired with a solo trumpet. However by the mid Eighteenth century in England, the use of dulcet tones and florid passages had given way to a more martial fanfare-like use of the trumpet. Instead of being used alone, trumpets appeared in pairs along with two tympany. When used with the voice, it was invariably in a Bass aria, often a character representing Mars or Jove and usually about war. The trumpets would rarely play at the same time as the voice, usually only punctuating instrumental sections between singing. For Boyce to use trumpets and drums in a Soprano aria about a love-sick maid was literally absurd in a mid-Eighteenth century pastoral Serenata. Not only this, at points the soprano voice has to compete with the full orchestra of strings, oboes and trumpets all playing simultaneously. This, combined with the tremolo strings raises the mood to a feverish pitch, with only brief respites from the sections scored for solo violin and voice. With the rising arpeggios interspersed with fanfares and forte orchestral tuttis, this truly must have been and edge-of-the-seat act finale.

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[maicwand]

she's touching her COOCH! and singing "fill the cooling juice the bowl"!!!

[TheCrazyCello]

@maicwand Yeah well check out the recitative, at the end she sings "and every sense within me dies..." you know what the French say about "the little death"!

No wonder this piece was banned by the Victorians eh?

[pepperjunebug]

oh. hay.