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The Catch club, or, Merry companions, being a choice collection of the most diverting catches for three and four voices, with an introduction to the Da Capo ed. by Joel Newman

eng

Includes bibliographical references

songs

full score

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The Catch club, or, Merry companions

174567

with an introduction to the Da Capo ed. by Joel Newman

being a choice collection of the most diverting catches for three and four voices

Contains over 100 catches mostly from the 17th century by Purcell, Blow, and others

pt. 1. Catch on the battle at Hailbron / Blow -- Kind Jenny / Blow -- [Wine wine in a morning makes us frollick and gay] / Purcell -- On the King's coming home / Blow -- [Prithee ben't so sad and ser'ous] / Purcell -- [Tis women makes us love] / Purcell -- The nut brown lass / Purcell -- A catch upon nothing / Aldrich -- The drawers catch / Brown -- On mun saint / Wise -- A Yorkshire epitaph on two Abby Lubbers / Blow -- [When V and I together meet] / Purcell -- [Let us drink, let us drink] / Purcell -- [Oyl and vinegar] / Hall -- [My man John had a thing that was long] / Eccles -- A catch by way of epistle / Purcell -- [Of all all the instruments] / Purcell -- [Sing one two three com follow] -- Prosperity to a musical society / Caesar -- A health to ou absent members / Caesar -- [Here's a health to our fleet to our great King and Queen] / Turner -- [Since time so kind to us does prove so kind] / Purcell -- [My lady's coachman John] / Purcell -- Call for the reck'ning and let us and let us be gone] / Purcell -- [He that drinks is immortal] / Purcell -- A catch on prince Eugene / Church -- [I gave her cakes and I gave her ale] / Purcell -- [Well rung Tom boy] -- A rebus upon McAnthony Hall, who keeps that Maremaid Tavern in Oxford, so plays his part very well on the violin / Purcell -- [To thee to thee and to a maid that kindly will up-on her / Purcell -- [Young John the gard'ner] / Purcell -- [Full bags, a brisk bottle and a beautiful face] / Purcell -- [Crown the glass, crown the glass] / Gillier -- [The Macedon youth left behind] / Purcell -- [Under a green Elm lies Luke Shepherds Helm] / Purcell -- Is Charleroy's siege come] / Purcell -- [Aron thus proposed to Moses] / Purcell -- A catch in the play of the knight of Malta / Purcell -- [As Roger last night to Jenny lay close] / Purcell -- A catch on the London coppers / Brown -- Counsel for married folks / Wise -- A rebus on the late Mr. Henry Purcell's name / Tomlinson -- [Count Ofsory why what of he!] / Aldrich -- [When a woman that's Buxom] / Lackson -- A catch on Iudith and Holifernes / Wise -- A catch on the midnight cats / Wise -- [Here's a health] / Purcell -- A catch in praise of white wine / Reading -- John the miller -- [Go feeble tyrant and invain thy fruitless conquest boast] / Gillier -- Tom Tary and Titus -- A catch on a man wit a wry nose / Brown -- [Come all ye high churchmen] / Hall -- A catch upon a coffee mill -- The almanac catch / Brown -- The Bedford catch for 3 voices: Being an epitaph upon two good wives, the one dead and the other living / Brown -- [Come hear me] / Blow -- The Czar's health / Hall -- The good fellow -- A catch upon small beer / Aldrich -- [Let us love and drink our liquor] / Lenton -- [Dost thou not remember Ned] / Aldrich -- [Taking his beer with old Anarcharsis] / Aldrich -- [To see on fire a boyling pot] / Wilson -- On a scolding wife -- [Our friend at the maremaid's down] / Aldrich -- [Come Iack drink] / Brown -- A catch upon Tom Jally's nose / Aldrich -- [Joan, Joan, for your part] -- [Poor Owen, poor Owen] / Church -- [Where they drank their wine in bowls] -- A catch upon Mr. Young and his sons / Caesar -- An answer to Ton Jolly's nose / Aldrichpt. 2. [Would you know how me meet] / Purcell -- Advice to friend Jacob in Cronhill / Brown -- [Here's that will challenge all the fair] / Purcell -- [The miller's daughter riding to the fair] / Purcell -- [A silver swan] -- The agreement / Brown -- Catch on good Claret / Day -- [Soldier, soldier, take off thy wine] / Purcell -- Drink on, drink on] / Purcell -- [Jack thou'rt a toper] / Purcell -- A catch on Duke of Marlborough's victory over the French / Brown -- The King's health / Blow -- [Room, room, room, room, room, for th'express] / Purcell -- The praise of claret / Reading -- [Bring the bowl, and cool nantz] / Purcell -- Pale faces stand by] / Purcell -- [Now now we are met] / Purcell -- Tom the taylor / Purcell -- The London constable / Purcell -- A Saturday night's catch / Brown -- [True English men drink a good health to the miter] / Purcell -- [Sir Walter, enjoying his damsel one night] / Purcell -- [Once, twice, thrice] / Purcell -- [Your merry poets, old boys] -- In praise of the punch bowl / Blow -- [Here lies a woman who can deny it?] -- [Here where is my landlord] -- Catch on the French at Audenard and Lilie / Brown -- Celia learning on the spinet / Isum -- [If all be true that I do think] / Purcell -- A catch on the London waterman / Isaac -- The King of Spain's health / Hall -- A catch upon our Victory at sea / Blow -- [Pox on you] / Purcell -- [Young Collin cleaving of a beam] / Purcell -- A catch on tobacco -- A catch on St. John and his lady / Brown -- [Was ever mortal man so fitted] / Brown -- [Come come let us drink] / Purcell -- [Have you observ'd the wench in the street] -- An epitaph on Sr. Harry and his mistress / Brown -- A chiding catch -- [There was an old man at Walton-Cross -- [A catch on Mr. Jery Clarke's old dog Spott / Brown -- [Confusion] / Eccles -- A catch on the famous expedition at Vigo / Brown -- 'Tis too late for a coach / Purcell -- [Come hither Tom and make up three, and sing this catch with me] -- A catch upon port wine -- [If any so wise is, that sack he despises] -- A catch on the modern courage and conduct of the French / Brown -- [Sum up all the delights] / Purcell -- Gallopping Joan / Brown -- A womans rule should be in such a fashion -- The King's health / Clarke -- Tinking Tom was an honest man / Ackeroyd -- Upone Christ church bells in Oxford -- A catch on malt liquor / Brown -- Here Tom, here's a health / Willis -- Let's fuddle our noses / Williams -- Second part of Bartholomew fair / Blow -- [Frank what shall we do for an hour or two] / Willis -- [Quoth Jack on a time to Tom] / Morgan -- Catch on a Parsons decriped old dog call'd Barnet / Brown -- An old epitaph / Purcell -- A catch upon a liquor call'd punch / Tudway -- Say good master Bacchus -- [She that will eat her breakfast in her bed] -- On a widow who married an old widower -- [There was three cooks in Colebrook] -- [Hark! Harry, Harry, hark!] / Eccles -- [Let's live good honest lives] / Purcell -- [In drinking sull bumpers there is no deceit] / Clarke -- [An ape, a lyon, a fox, and an ass] / Purcell -- [Whose three hogs are these] -- [Once in our lives, let us drink to our wives] / Purcell -- [Good Symon, how comes it your nose looks so red] -- A cat catch / Brown -- [Here dwells a pretty maid whose name is Sis]

Merry companions