Record ID
136099
Creator
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Object title
If music be the food of love.
Published
London : Printed, for Rich. Parker : And to be sold by R. Baldwin, June, 1692.
Notes
For voice and continuo.
Title from incipit.
Music by Purcell; words by Henry Heveningham.
First printing of the song.
The same issue also includes the scores for Ah friends, how happy we are here, a song for two voices by Samuel Akeroyd, words by Pierre Anthony Motteux, and Who, dear Fidelia, who can view, a song by Johann Wolfgang Franck, words by "S.B."
Title from incipit.
Music by Purcell; words by Henry Heveningham.
First printing of the song.
The same issue also includes the scores for Ah friends, how happy we are here, a song for two voices by Samuel Akeroyd, words by Pierre Anthony Motteux, and Who, dear Fidelia, who can view, a song by Johann Wolfgang Franck, words by "S.B."
Associated names
Heveningham, Henry.
Baldwin, Richard, -1698, bookseller.
Baldwin, Richard, -1698, bookseller.
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