Lovely Selina - Blow, John

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"Setting of an anonymous poem telling of an innocent maiden betrayed by her lover. Set to a ground bass of a descending tetrachord. Sung in Nathaniel Lee's 'The Princess of Cleve' between 1680 and 1683."

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → solo high

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range D3 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 85

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments Basso continuo

Pages 6

CPDL # 33002

Editor Cathal Twomey

Posted 2014-09-22

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Voice

B3 – G5

Basso Continuo

D3 – G3

¶Lyrics / Text

Lovely Selina, innocent and free from all the dangerous arts of love, thus in a melancholy grove enjoy’d the sweetness of her privacy; ’till envious gods, designing to undo her, dispatch’d the swain not unlike then to woo her. It was not long ’ere the design did take; a gentle youth, born to persuade deceiv’d the too too easy maid, her scrip and garlands soon she did forsake, and rashly told the secrets of her heart which this fond man would evermore impart. False Florimel, joy of my heart, said she, ’tis hard to love, and love in vain, to love, and not be lov’d again; and why should love and prudence disagree? Pity ye pow’rs that sit at ease above, if ‘ere you know what ’tis to be in love.