The Fairy-Queen – Songs

Author’s Note: The breakdown given below is combining the numbers in the score with their place in the original libretto. Where musical numbers are given voicetypes and not character names, these are noted in brackets below.

No. 1 Prelude
No. 2 Hornpipe
No. 3 Air
No. 4 Rondeau

Act One - A Palace

No. 5 Overture
Dialogue ‘Now the Glow-worm shews her Light’ - Titania, Indian Boy, 1st Fairy
No 6. Duet ‘Come, come, come let us leave the Town’ - (Soprano and Bass)
No. 7 Scene of the Drunken Poet ‘Fill up the bowl’ - Drunken Poet, 1st Fairy, 2nd Fairy, Chorus
Dialogue ‘Sleep has seis’d the lovely Boy’ - Titania, 1st Fairy
No. 8 Jig

Act Two - A Wood, by Moon-light

Dialogue ‘Take Hands, and trip it in a round,’ - Titania, Fairies
No. 9 Prelude ‘Come all ye Songsters of the Sky’ - (Tenor)
No. 10 Interlude
No. 11 Chorus ‘May the God of Wit Inspire’ - Chorus
No. 12 Echo
No. 13 Chorus ‘Now join your warbling voices all’ - Chorus
No. 13a Aria ‘Sing while we trip it’ - (Soprano)
Dialogue ‘Come Elves, another Dance, and Fairy Song’ - Titania
No. 14 Song ‘See, See, See, even Night herself is here’ - Night
No. 15 Song ‘I am come to lock all fast’ - Mystery
No. 16 Song ‘One charming night gives more delight’ - Secrecy
No. 17 Song ‘Hush, no more’ - Sleep, Chorus
No. 18 Dance for the Followers of Night
No. 19 Air

Act Three - A Great Wood

Dialogue ‘Come, lovely Youth, sit on this flow'ry Bed’ - Titania, Bottom
No. 20 Song ‘If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?’ - (Soprano), Chorus
No. 21 Symphony while the swans come forward
No. 22 Dance for the Fairies
No. 23 Dance for the Green Men
No. 24 Aria ‘Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air’ - Soprano
No. 25 Dialogue between Corridon and Mopsa ‘Now the maids and the men’ - Corridon, Mopsa
No. 26 Aria ‘When I have often heard’ - Nymph
No. 27 Dance for the Haymakers
No. 28 ‘A thousand, thousand, ways’ - (Alto), Chorus
Dialogue ‘Now I will Feast the Pallate of my Love’ - Titania, Bottom
No. 29 Hornpipe

Act Four - Garden of Fountains

Dialogue ‘Hark, thou King of Shadows, hark!’ - Puck, Oberon, Titania, Bottom
No. 30 Symphony
No. 31 Solo with Chorus ‘Now the Night is chas'd away,’ - 1st Attendant, Chorus
No. 32 Duet ‘Let the Fifes and the Clarions’ - 2nd and 3rd Attendant
No. 33 Entry of Phoebus
No. 34 Aria ‘When a cruel long winter’ - Phoebus
No. 35 Chorus ‘Hail! Great Parent’ - Chorus
No. 36 Song ‘Thus the ever grateful spring’ - Spring
No. 37 Song ‘Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay’ - Summer
No. 38 Song ‘See my many Colour'd Fields’ - Autumn
No. 39 Song ‘Now Winter comes Slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old’ - Winter, Chorus
No. 40 Air

Act Five - Athens

Dialogue ‘Go bid the Huntsmen wake 'em with their Musick’ - Theseus, Egeus, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena
No. 41 Prelude
Dialogue ‘Are not these Stories strange, my Gracious Lord?’ - Egeus, Theseus, Oberon, Titania, Puck, Fairies
No. 42 Epithalamium ‘Thrice happy lovers’ - Juno
Dialogue ‘Sing me the Plaint that did so Nobly move’ - Oberon
No. 43 The Plaint ‘O let me weep’ - (Soprano)
Dialogue ‘Now let a new Transparent World be seen’ - Oberon
No. 44 Entry Dance
No. 45 Symphony
No. 46 Song ‘Thus the gloomy World’ - Chinese Man
No. 47 Song ‘Thus happy and free ‘ - Chinese Woman, Chorus
No. 48 Song ‘Yes, Xansi’ - Chinese Man
No. 49 Monkeys’ Dance
No. 50 Song ‘Hark how all things’ - 1st Woman
No. 51 Song ‘Hark! The Ech’ing Air’ - 2nd Woman, Chorus
No. 52 Duet and Chorus ‘Sure the dulle God of Marriage does not hear’ - 1st Woman, 2nd Woman, Chorus
No. 53 Prelude
No. 53a Solo ‘See, I Obey’ - Hymen
No. 53b Duet ‘Turn Thine Eyes’ - 1st Woman, 2nd Woman
No. 53c Trio ‘They shall be as happy’ - Hymen, 1st Woman, 2nd Woman, Chorus
No. 54 Chaconne

Epilogue - Dialogue ‘At Dead of Night we'll to the Bride-bed come’ - Oberon, Titania