{"product_id":"purcell-oh-that-my-grief-was-throughly-weighd-stainer","title":"Purcell: Oh that my grief was throughly weigh'd","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/zh\/collections\/henry-purcell\"\u003eHenry Purcell (1659-1695)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEditor\u003c\/strong\u003e: Rebecca Herissone\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eBasso continuo, TTB Solos\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: Oh that my grief was throughly weigh'd\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork Language\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-language\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISMN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9790220225918\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e9.0\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilip Hayes (1738–1797) was a pioneer collector of the manuscripts of Henry Purcell, and his music library is a landmark of early musicology. Much less well known, however, are the six large scorebooks containing his own transcriptions of Restoration music, four now held at Tatton Park in Cheshire and the other two – almost entirely overlooked until now – at the Royal College of Music, London. From the basis of Hayes's own scholarship, itself remarkable for its time, and of a fascinating trail of textual evidence encompassing three centuries, Rebecca Herissone has identified the hitherto unknown devotional song \u003cem\u003eOh that my grief was throughly weigh 'd\u003c\/em\u003e as an authentic composition by Purcell, despite the lack of any surviving primary source. Taking selected verses from the King James version of the book of Job, chapters 3 and 6, the setting is mainly a duet for high tenor and tenor with continuo accompaniment, but has a three-part repeated refrain including bass voice. \u003cem\u003eOh that my grief was throughly weigh 'd\u003c\/em\u003e is stylistically entirely consonant with Purcell's other works in this genre, and is a welcome addition to his small yet distinguished repertoire of devotional partsongs also including \u003cem\u003ePlung 'd in the confines of despair\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhen on my sickbed I languish\u003c\/em\u003e , and \u003cem\u003eIn guilty night\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stainer \u0026 Bell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31714860105807,"sku":"D109","price":12.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/8911471ffff15d0eb04bf0165891ce8d.webp?v=1751299008","url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/zh\/products\/purcell-oh-that-my-grief-was-throughly-weighd-stainer","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}