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1honorary secretary. In 1923 Gerald Cooper became honorary secretary.
3The following volumes have appeared:
51. The Yorkshire Feast Song (1689), ed. Cummings. 1878.
62. The Masque in 'Timon of Athens,' ed. Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley (assumed date 1678, probable date 1694). 1882.
73. Dido and Aeneas, ed. Cummings (assumed date 1680, probable date 1688–89). 1889.
84. Duke of Gloucester's Birthday Ode. 'Who can from joy refrain?' ed. Cummings (1695). 1891.
95. Twelve 'Sonnata's of Three Parts' (1683), ed. J. A. Fuller Maitland. 1893.
106. Harpsichord Music, ed. W. B. Squire, and Organ Music, ed. Dr. E. J. Hopkins. 1895.
117. Ten Sonatas of Four Parts (1697), ed. Sir C. V. Stanford. 1896.
128. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, 1692, ed. J. A. Fuller Maitland. 1897.
139. Dioclesian (1690), ed. Sir J. F. Bridge and John Pointer. 1900.
1410. Three Odes for St. Cecilia's Day. ('Welcome to all the pleasures,' 1683; 'Raise the Voice,' probably 1683, and 'Laudate Ceciliam,' 1683), ed. G. E. P. Arkwright. 1899.
1511. Birthday Odes for Queen Mary, part i. ('Now does the glorious day appear,' 1689; 'Arise, my muse,' 1690; 'Welcome, welcome, glorious morn,' 1691), ed. Arkwright. 1902.
1612. The Fairy Queen, ed. J. S. Shedlock. 1903.
1713 (a). Sacred Music, Part I. Eight Anthems. Two Funeral Sentences: (1) 'In the midst of life,' (2) 'Thou knowest, Lord'; 'Who hath believed our report?'; 'My beloved spake' (earliest version); 'Behold now, praise the Lord'; 'Save me, O God'; 'Blessed is he whose righteousness'; 'Hear me, O Lord' (earliest version of opening verse, later version); 'Bow down thine ear,' ed. by G. E. P. Arkwright. 1921.
1813 (b). Sacred Music, Part I. Early Anthems (not yet published, 1926).
1914. Sacred Music, Part II. Anthems, 'It is a good thing,' O praise God in His holiness,' 'Awake, put on thy strength,' 'In Thee, O Lord,' 'The Lord is my light,' 'I was glad,' 'My heart is fixed,' 'Praise the Lord, O my soul,' 'Rejoice in the Lord alway,' ed. Wooldridge and Arkwright. 1904.
2015. Welcome songs, Part I. 'Welcome, Vicegerent of the mighty King,' on his Majesty's return from Windsor, 1680; 'Swifter, Isis, swifter flow,' 1681; 'What shall be done on behalf of the man,' on the Duke of York's return from Scotland, 1682; 'The Summer's Absence unconcerned we bear,' for the King's return from Newmarket, 1682; 'Fly, bold Rebellion,' 1683, on the discovery of the Rye House Plot, ed. R. Vaughan Williams, 1905.
2116. Dramatic Music, Part I. 'Abdelazar,' 'Amphitryon,' 'Aureng-Zebe,' 'Bonduca,' 'The Canterbury Guests,' 'Circe,' 'Cleomenes,' 'Distressed Innocence,' 'The Comical History of Don Quixote' Parts I., II. and III., 'The Double Dealer,' 'The Double Marriage,' 'The English Lawyer,' ed. by Alan Gray. 1906.
2217. Sacred Music, Part III. Anthems, 'Why do the heathen,' 'Unto Thee will I cry,' 'I will give thanks,' 'My heart is inditing,' 'O sing unto the Lord,' 'Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem,' 'Praise the Lord, O my soul,' ed. by H. E. Wooldridge and G. E. P. Arkwright. 1907.
2318. Welcome Songs, Part II. 'From those serene and rapturous joys,' performed to His Majesty in 1684; 'Why, why are all the muses mute?' being the first song performed to King James II., 1685; 'Ye tuneful Muses,' 1686; 'Sound the trumpet,' 1687; ed. by R. Vaughan Williams. 1910.
2419. 'The Indian Queen,' 'The Tempest,' ed. Edward J. Dent. 1912.
2520. Dramatic Music, Part II. 'The Fatal Marriage'; 'The Female Vertuosos'; 'A Fool's Preferment'; 'The Gordian Knot untied'; 'Henry the Second'; 'The Indian Emperor'; 'King Richard the Second'; 'The Knight of Malta'; 'The Libertine'; 'Love Triumphant'; 'The Maid's Last Prayer'; 'The Marriage-hater Match'd'; 'The Married Beau'; 'The Massacre of Paris'; 'The Mock Marriage,' ed. by Alan Gray. 1916.
2621. Dramatic Music, Part III. 'Oedipus'; 'The Old Bachelor'; 'Oroonoko'; 'Pausanias'; 'Regulus'; 'The Richmond Heiress'; 'The Rival Sisters'; 'Rule a Wife and Have a Wife'; 'Sir Anthony Love'; 'Sir Barnaby Whigg'; 'Sophonisba'; 'The Spanish Friar'; 'Theodosius'; 'Tyrannick Love'; 'The Virtuous Wife'; 'The Wives' Excuse'; Music in an unidentified play, ed. by Alan Gray. 1917.
2722. Catches and Rounds, ed. by W. Barclay Squire; Two Part and Three Part Songs, ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 1922.
2823. Services. Morning and Evening in B7; Evening in G mi.; Te Deum and Jubilate in D (with accomp. for 2 trpts. and strings), ed. by Alan Gray. 1923.
2924. Birthday Odes for Queen Mary, Part II. 'Love's Goddess sure' (1692); Celebrate this festival (1693); 'Come ye sons of art' (1694), ed. by Geoffrey Shaw. 1926.
31The following volumes, still unpublished (1926), are expected to complete the series: Secular Songs and Cantatas (ed. by G. Shaw); Sacred Music (ed. by Alan Gray); Anthems (ed. by G. E. P. Arkwright); King Arthur (ed. by Dennis Arundell); Miscellaneous Odes and Choral pieces; Miscellaneous Instrumental Music and Supplements.
33PURDAY, a London family largely connected with music and music-publishing.
35(1) PURDAY & BUTTON were the direct successors to the large firm of THOMPSON (q.v.) who had held business premises at 75 St. Paul's Churchyard from about 1750. Purday went into partnership with S. J. Button about 1805, but retired about 1808, when the firm took the name BUTTON & WHITAKER (q.v.). Purday was probably the father of (2) ZENAS TRIVETT PURDAY who, taking over JOHN BLAND'S (q.v.) old shop, in succession to William Hodsoll, in 1831 established a large music trade, principally in numerous sheet songs. He ceased business about 1855–60.
37(3) THOMAS EDWARD PURDAY, of the same family, was, from 1836 to after 1855, doing a similar trade in sheet songs in St. Paul's Churchyard.
39(4) CHARLES HENRY PURDAY (b. Folkestone, Jan. 11, 1799 1; d. London, Apr. 23, 1885), well known as a composer and a writer, was a lecturer on musical matters, and at one time a vocalist of some repute. He directed much energy to the amendment of the law in relation to musical copyright, and he acted for some time as conductor of psalmody to the Scotch Church in Crown Street, Covent Garden, composing and editing a number of works of sacred music. Some of his secular songs, and his fine tune to 'Lead, kindly light,' attained considerable popularity. He was a contributor to the first edition of this Dictionary. F. K.
41PURDIE, ROBERT, the founder of an extensive music-publishing business in Edinburgh. He is first heard of in 1804 as a music-teacher in Jollie's Close, Edinburgh, off the Canongate, but in 1805 he had removed to a better district, St. James's Square. In 1808 he opened a music shop at 35 Princes Street, and here he began the issue of sheet music. In 1813 the number of the premises changed to 71, and in 1828 it was again renumbered as 83.
43He quickly became the leading music-publisher in the Scottish capital; and besides a great deal of sheet music his imprint is on a well-known collection of Scottish songs, 'The Scottish Minstrel,' in six vols., edited by R. A. Smith, 'The Irish Minstrel,' and on similar works. On the failure of Nathaniel Gow, Purdie, in conjunction with Alexander Robertson, another Edinburgh publisher, reissued the Gow publications. Robert Purdie was succeeded near the year 1837 by his son John, and the business was carried on until about 1887. F. K.
45PURFLING, the inlaid line of plane wood, formed of three slips, of which the centre one is stained black, the two outer being left white, following the outlines of musical instruments of the violin and guitar type, which, owing to its utility in preserving the edges from chipping, is all that is left of the redundant ornamentation so skilfully employed by the ancient lute and viol makers. Some of the earlier makers, notably Jacobs of Amsterdam, purfled with whalebone, but the true artists used, and still use, the three strips sunk together into a carefully cut groove, and finished off when the glue is dry with a small gouge. 'Purfing' may be bought ready made, i.e. the three strips ready glued together for inlaying, but this
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