Purcell: Z 605/1. Oh! how you protest (The Mock Marriage) - Nelson (Hogwood)

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The Mock Marriage, Z 605

Comedy

Text: Thomas Scott

First performance: Summer or early autumn of 1695, in London (Dorset Garden)
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1. Song:
Oh! how you protest and solemnly lie
for soprano and basso continuo

Text: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723)

Music: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)?

Published in the third book of 'Deliciæ Musicæ' (London: Henry Playford, 1696)
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Judith Nelson, soprano

The Academy of Ancient Music,
conducted by Christopher Hogwood

Recorded in December 1980

Pitch: A = 415 Hz
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The score featured in this video is from 'Deliciæ Musicæ', with some editing on the repeated sections. The second verse was published as text only.

The name of the composer is not mentioned in 'Deliciæ Musicæ'. The song is first attributed to Henry Purcell in the fourth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's 'Wit and Mirth' published in 1706.

Marc D.

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