Pills to Purge Melancholy
Maurice Saylor
About this work:
A collection of the best merry ballads and songs fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either male or female voice and piano.
The texts of these five songs are taken from Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy, of 1719-20. D'Urfey is known to have written some of the songs himself, others he collected.
Year composed: 1988
Duration: 00:13:00
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Solo Voice with Keyboard
Instrumentation: 1 Piano, 1 High Voice