TY  - MUSIC
AU  - Pepusch,John Christopher
AU  - Gay,John
AU  - Dent,Edward J.
TI  - The beggar's opera
U1  - M 782.1 20
PY  - 1954///
CY  - London
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Operas
KW  - Vocal scores with piano
N1  - ncludes introduction with synopsis, production notes, sources of the songs, and cast details; ACT I; Overture --; 1. Through all the employments of life (Peachum) --; 2. Tis woman that seduces all mankind (Filch) --; 3. If any wench Venus' girdle wear (Mrs. Peachum) --; 4. If love the virgin's heart (Mrs. Peachum) --; 5. A maid is like the golden ore (Mrs. Peachum) --; 6. Virgins are like the fair flower (Polly) --; 7. Our Polly is a sad slut (Mrs. Peachum) --; 8. Can love be controuled by advice (Polly) --; 9. O Polly you might have toyed and kissed (Mrs. Peachum, Polly) --; 10. I like a ship n storms was tost (Polly) --; 11. A fox may steal your hens sir (Peachum) --; 12. O ponder well (Polly) --; 13. The turtle thus with plaintive crying (Polly) --; 14. Pretty Polly say (Macheath, Polly) --; 15. My heart was so free (Macheath) --; 16. Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath, Polly) --; 17. Oh what pain it is to part (Polly) --; 18. The Miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath) --; ACT II; Introduction --; 19. Fill every glass (Matt of the Mint and male chorus) --; 20. Let us take the road (Matt of the Mint and male chorus) --; 21. Music for the Harper --; 21a. A Dance a la Ronde in the French manner --; 22. Youth's the season mde for joys (Female Chorus) --; 23. Before the barn door crowing (Jenny) --; 23a. No 23 arranged as a dance, if required (without voices) --; 24. The Gamsters and Lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny) --; 25. At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Macheath) --; 25a. Interlude --; 26. Man may excape from rope and gun (Macheath) --; 27. Thus when a good housewife sees a rat (Lucy) --; 28. How cruel are the traitors (Lucy) --; 29. The first time at the looking glass (Macheath) --; 30. When you censure the age (Lockit, Peachum) --; 31. Is then his fate decreed, Sir? (Lucy) --; 32. You'll think ere many days ensure (Lockit) --; 33. If you at at Office solicit your due (Macheath) --; 34. Thus when the swallow (Polly) --; 35. How happy could I be with either (Macheath) --; 36. I'm bubbled (Polly, Lucy) --; 37. Cease your funning (Polly) --; 38. Why how now, madam flirt? (Lucy, Polly) --; 39. No power on earth canever divide (Polly) 1st & 2nd version --; 40. I like the fox shall grieve (Macheath) --; ACT III; 41. When young at the bar (Lucy) --; 42. My love is all madness and folly (Lucy) --; 43. Thus Gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit) --; 44. The Modes of the Court so common are grown (Macheath) --; 46. In the days of my youth (Mrs. Trapes) --; 47. I'm like a skiff on the Ocean tost (Lucy) --; 48. When a wife's in her pout (Lucy) --; 49. A curse attends that woman's love (Polly, Lucy) --; 50. Among the men coquets we find (Polly) --; 51. Come, sweet lass (lucy) --; 52. Hither dear husband turn your eyes (Polly, Lucy) --; 53. Which way shall I turn me? (Macheath) --; 54. When my hero in court appears (Polly) --; 55. When he holds up his head (Lucy) --; 56. Ourselves like the great (Lockit) --; 57. The Charge is prepar'd ; A Dance of prisoners in chain(Macheath) --; 58-67 O cruel cruel case (Macheath) --; 68. Wou'd I might be hang'd (Polly, Lucy, Macheath) --; 69. Thus I stand like the Turk (Macheath and male and female chorus)
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