Henry Livingston's Music Manuscript Book: p.60

Manuscript in Thomas Collection Mozart transcription by Mary Van Deusen, Corrections by Mary Jane Corry

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ALLEMAND SWISSE

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HIGHLAND QUEEN No more my song shall be, ye swains,
Of flow'ry fields and verdant plains
Now pleasing beauties now inspire
And Phoebus deigns the warbling Lyre.
Divinely aided thus I mean
To Celebrate my Highland Queen.

HIGHLAND QUEEN
Appears in:
    W. Allen MS, 1745;
    The Compleat Tutor for the French Horn, 1790
    Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources 1589-1839

The Highland Queen. A new song sung in the publick gardens [London]. [1780?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/40. Cambridge University Library Madden vol. 2 A slip-song - "No more my song shall be ye swains,". In this edition the woodcut at head depicts the bust of a crowned queen and that at foot Cupid. No full stop at end of title. REFERENCE: ESTCT200068 2. [London]. [1790?] 1 sheet: ill.; 1/40. Cambridge University Library Madden ballads, vol. 2 A slip-song - "No more my song shall be ye swains,". In this edition the woodcut at head depicts a woman with a fan and that at foot two figures. Woodcut at foot not clear in C (Madden) copy xerox. REFERENCE: ESTCT200069.

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SOPHRONIA 1 Forebear my friend, forbear, & ask no more
Where all my cheerful airs are fled.
Why will ye make me talk my torments o'er?
My life, my Joy, my comforts dead.

2 Deep from my soul mark how the sobs arise.
Hear the long groans that waste my breath,
And read the mighty sorrows in my eyes.
Lovely Sophronia sleeps in death.

SOPHRONIA
Appears as American air in American Musical Miscellany, 1798.

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