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040			_aWCX _beng _cWCX _dAMPA
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082	0	4	_220 _aM 782.1 _bPEPU
100	1		_4cmp _aPepusch, John Christopher _d1667-1752
240	1	0	_aBeggar's opera _sVocal score
245	1	4	_aThe beggar's opera _h[music] / _cwritten by John Gay ; the overture composed and the songs arranged by John Christopher Pepusch ; edited by Edward J. Dent.
250			_aVocal score
260			_aLondon : _bOxford University Press, _c©1954.
300			_a1 vocal score (xiv, 89 pages) : _bmusic ; _c25 cm
500			_ancludes introduction with synopsis, production notes, sources of the songs, and cast details
505			_tACT I : _tOverture -- _t1. Through all the employments of life (Peachum) -- _t2. Tis woman that seduces all mankind (Filch) -- _t3. If any wench Venus' girdle wear (Mrs. Peachum) -- _t4. If love the virgin's heart (Mrs. Peachum) -- _t5. A maid is like the golden ore (Mrs. Peachum) -- _t6. Virgins are like the fair flower (Polly) -- _t7. Our Polly is a sad slut (Mrs. Peachum) -- _t8. Can love be controuled by advice (Polly) -- _t9. O Polly you might have toyed and kissed (Mrs. Peachum, Polly) -- _t10. I like a ship n storms was tost (Polly) -- _t11. A fox may steal your hens sir (Peachum) -- _t12. O ponder well (Polly) -- _t13. The turtle thus with plaintive crying (Polly) -- _t14. Pretty Polly say (Macheath, Polly) -- _t15. My heart was so free (Macheath) -- _t16. Were I laid on Greenland's coast (Macheath, Polly) -- _t17. Oh what pain it is to part (Polly) -- _t18. The Miser thus a shilling sees (Macheath) --
505			_tACT II : _tIntroduction -- _t19. Fill every glass (Matt of the Mint and male chorus) -- _t20. Let us take the road (Matt of the Mint and male chorus) -- _t21. Music for the Harper -- _t21a. A Dance a la Ronde in the French manner -- _t22. Youth's the season mde for joys (Female Chorus) -- _t23. Before the barn door crowing (Jenny) -- _t23a. No 23 arranged as a dance, if required (without voices) -- _t24. The Gamsters and Lawyers are jugglers alike (Jenny) -- _t25. At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Macheath) -- _t25a. Interlude -- _t26. Man may excape from rope and gun (Macheath) -- _t27. Thus when a good housewife sees a rat (Lucy) -- _t28. How cruel are the traitors (Lucy) -- _t29. The first time at the looking glass (Macheath) -- _t30. When you censure the age (Lockit, Peachum) -- _t31. Is then his fate decreed, Sir? (Lucy) -- _t32. You'll think ere many days ensure (Lockit) -- _t33. If you at at Office solicit your due (Macheath) -- _t34. Thus when the swallow (Polly) -- _t35. How happy could I be with either (Macheath) -- _t36. I'm bubbled (Polly, Lucy) -- _t37. Cease your funning (Polly) -- _t38. Why how now, madam flirt? (Lucy, Polly) -- _t39. No power on earth canever divide (Polly) 1st & 2nd version -- _t40. I like the fox shall grieve (Macheath) --
505			_tACT III : _t41. When young at the bar (Lucy) -- _t42. My love is all madness and folly (Lucy) -- _t43. Thus Gamesters united in friendship are found (Lockit) -- _t44. The Modes of the Court so common are grown (Macheath) -- _t46. In the days of my youth (Mrs. Trapes) -- _t47. I'm like a skiff on the Ocean tost (Lucy) -- _t48. When a wife's in her pout (Lucy) -- _t49. A curse attends that woman's love (Polly, Lucy) -- _t50. Among the men coquets we find (Polly) -- _t51. Come, sweet lass (lucy) -- _t52. Hither dear husband turn your eyes (Polly, Lucy) -- _t53. Which way shall I turn me? (Macheath) -- _t54. When my hero in court appears (Polly) -- _t55. When he holds up his head (Lucy) -- _t56. Ourselves like the great (Lockit) -- _t57. The Charge is prepar'd ; A Dance of prisoners in chain(Macheath) -- _t58-67 O cruel cruel case (Macheath) -- _t68. Wou'd I might be hang'd (Polly, Lucy, Macheath) -- _t69. Thus I stand like the Turk (Macheath and male and female chorus).
650		0	_aOperas _xVocal scores with piano
700	1		_4aut _aGay, John _d1685-1732
700	1		_4edt _4arr _aDent, Edward J. _q(Edward Joseph) _d1876-1957
942			_2ddc _cSCORE
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