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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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2. Song:
'Twas within a furlong of Edinborough town
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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Maureen Forrester, contralto

Martin Isepp, harpsichord
Unidentified player, violoncello

[Vienna Radio Orchestra,
conducted by Brian Priestman]

Recorded in June 1966

Transposed down a minor third
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The score featured in this video is from 'Deliciæ Musicæ', with some editing on the repeated sections. The second and third verses were published as text only.

The name of the composer is not mentioned in 'Deliciæ Musicæ'. The song is attributed to Henry Purcell in a single-sheet edition of circa 1695-1700. In a manuscript 'dating from about 1705, a keyboard version is attributed to 'Mr Cla-', probably Jeremiah Clarke, though this may mean simply that he arranged it' (Curtis Price: 'Henry Purcell and the London Stage').

Marc D.

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