The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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London :: Printed by J. Playford for Henry Playford and R.C. ...,
1685-1687.
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Subject terms
Songs, English -- England.
Songs with continuo.
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"The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54969.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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descriptionPage 58
〈♫〉〈♫〉ALL my past Life is mine no more, the fly—ing Hours are
gone; like tran—si—to—ry Dreams giv'n o're, whose I—ma—ges are kept in store, by
Me—mo—ry a—lone.
II.
What ever is to come is not,How can it then be mine?The present Moment's all my lot,And that as fast as it is got,Phillis is wholly thine.
III.
Then talk not of Inconstancy,False Hearts, and broken Vows;If I by Miracle can be,This long-liv'd Minute true to thee,It's all that Heaven allows.
Dr. John Blow.
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