The Fairy Prince | Edition

(* = no music survives    ‡ = incomplete)

1 (Music 1a Full score   , Music 1a MIDI   , Music 1b Full score   , Music 1b MIDI   , Music 1c Full score   , Music 1c MIDI   )    Overture

PART 1

2 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Accompanied recitative (First Satyr): Chromis? Mnasyl? None appear?

3 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air (Echo): Oh, you wake then! Come away

4 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Accompanied recitative (First Satyr): What doth make you thus delay?

5 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air (First Satyr and Echo): Idle nymph, I pray thee, be

Recitative (Satyrs and Silenus): Ay, this sound I better know

6a (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air (Silenus): Satyrs, he doth fill with grace

6b (Full score   , MIDI   )    Chorus (Satyrs): Oh, that he would come away! ‡

7 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Gavotte: Figure dance (Satyrs)

Recitative (Satyrs): Farewell, Bacchus! We will serve ‡

8 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air and Chorus (Satyrs): And, to answer all things else

Recitative (Silenus): Peace! The rock will quickly ope *

9 (Full score   , MIDI   )    For the entrance of the sylvans

10 (Music 9 Full score   , Music 9 MIDI   , Music 10 Full score   , Music 10 MIDI   )    Chacoon (Figure dance of satyrs)

Recitative (Silenus and Satyrs): Mark, my satyrs, what a show! ‡

11 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Catch (Satyrs): ‘Buzz’, quoth the blue fly

Recitative (Silenus, Satyrs, Sylvan, First Nymph): How now, sylvans! Can you wake? ‡

12 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air (First Nymph): See, see, oh, see, who here is come a-maying!

Recitative (Second Nymph): Now, now, prepare to set *

13 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Dance of sylvans   

14 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Dance of wood-nymphs

Recitative (Silenus): Stay, the cheerful Chanticleer *

15 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Chorus: Hail, fair knighthood; let our lays ‡

16 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Accompanied recitative (Second Nymph): Let our shows be new, as strange

17 (Music 15 Full score   , Music 15 MIDI   , Music 16 Full score   , Music 16 MIDI   )    Air (Second Nymph): Let us play and dance and sing

18 (Music 17 Full score   , Music 17 MIDI   , Music 18 Full score   , Music 18 MIDI   )    Duetto and Chorus (Nymphs): Now all the air shall ring

PART 2

19 (Full score   , MIDI   )    A troop of fairies

20 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Accompanied recitative (First Fairy): Well were the solemn rites begun *

21 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air (First Fairy): Tho′ the moon be gone to bed

      Recitative (Second Fairy): And sweet Osnaphil his brother *

22 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Duetto (Principal Fairies): Seek you majesty to strike?

      Recitative (First Fairy): Now, fays and elves, your talks about *

23 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air [Fairy]: And ever, ever, in a ring *

      Recitative [Fairy]: In emerald tufts the motto write *

24 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Air (Second Fairy): Melt earth to sea, sea flow to air

25 (Full score   , MIDI   )    The fairies’ country dance, by the children, in the Second Act

      The procession to St George’s Chapel

26 (Full score   , MIDI   )    The first grand march at the procession

27 (Full score   , MIDI   )    The second grand march at the procession

28 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Orchestra march

PART 3

   Recitative (Principal Fairies): Nor yet, my fays, in this day blest *

29 (Full score   , MIDI   )    Duetto (Principal Fairies): Nay, nay, You must not stay

30 (Full score   , MIDI   )    A dance of fairies *

31 (Full score   , MIDI   )    When St George descends

32 (Full score   , MIDI   )    The first air played at the dinner

33 (Full score   , MIDI   )    The favourite minuet played at the dinner

34 (Full score   , MIDI   )   Grand Chorus: Renown, assume thy trumpet *

APPENDIX 1

Keyboard reduction of the Overture

35 (Full score   , MIDI   )   The new Overture to the Fairy Prince, Adapted for the Harpsichord, or Piano Forte.

APPENDIX 2

36 (Full score   , MIDI   )   Additional Scene (Text only): ‘Battle of Cressy’