William and Gayle Cook Music Library
Indiana University School of Music
George Frideric Handel
Acis and
Galatea
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Contents
Front cover
Title page
Foreword
Table of contents
Act I
- No. 1 Sinfonia
- No. 2 Chorus: "Oh the pleasure of the
plains"
- No. 3
- Recitative: "Ye verdent plains"
- Aria: "Hush, hush, ye pretty warbling
quire"
- No. 4 Aria: "Where shall I seek"
- No. 5
- Recitative: "Stay, shepherd, stay"
- Aria: "Shepherd, what art thou
pursuing"
- No. 6
- Recitative: "Lo! here my love"
- Aria: "Love in her eyes sits playing"
- No. 7
- Recitative: "Oh! didst thou know the pains"
- Aria: "As when the dove"
- No. 8 Duet: "Happy we"
- No. 9 Chorus: "Happy we"
Act II
- No. 10 Chorus: "Wretched lovers"
- No. 11 Recitative: "I rage, I melt"
- No. 12 Aria: "O ruddier than the
cherry"
- No. 13 Recitative: "Wither,
fairest, art thou running"
- No. 14 Aria: "Cease to beauty to be suing"
- No. 15 Aria: "Would you gain the
tender creature"
- No. 16
- Recitative: "His hideous love provokes my rage"
- Aria: "Love sounds th' alarm"
- No. 17 Aria: "Consider, fond shepherd"
- No. 18 Recitative: "Cease, oh cease,
thou gentle youth"
- No. 19 Trio: "The flocks shall leave
the mountains"
- No. 20 Recitative: "Help, Galatea"
- No. 21 Chorus: "Mourn, all ye muses"
- No. 22 Solo and Chorus: "Must I my Acis
still bemoan"
- No. 23
- Recitative: "Tis done: thus I exert my pow'r divine"
- Aria: "Heart, the seat of soft delight"
- No. 24 Chorus: "Galatea, dry thy
tears"
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