| Work Title
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12 English Songs Serious and Humourous
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| Alternative. Title
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Twelve English Songs Serious and Humourous With a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord Set to Musick by Mr. Gunn
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| Composer
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Gunn, Barnabas
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IBG 8
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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1 cantata, 12 songs
- A humourous Cantata. Some courtly youth whom Love inspires
- The Bee. To heal the smart a bee had made
- Humphry Gubbins's Courtship. A courting I went to my love
- The Rose. Behold this rose, how sweetly she
- Florella. Why will Florella, when I gaze
- Nosegay for Flora. Come ye fair ambrosial flow'rs
- The Happy Man. Happy hours, all hours excelling
- Staffordshire Doll. Shame to the lass whose fatal beauty
- To the Ladies. Wife and servant are the same
- Not this youthful April season
- As Daphne sat beneath the shade
- The Contented Man. No glory I covet, no riches I want
- Chloe's Choice. The beau with his delicate womanish face
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| First Publication.
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1750 ca.
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| Librettist
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9. Lady Chudleigh
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| Language
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English
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Baroque
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| Piece Style
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Baroque
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| Instrumentation
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voice, continuo; voice, harpsichord; voice, violin (or flute), continuo
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