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King Arthur was the only one of Purcell's professionally produced operas to have been designed as a semi-opera; the others were all adaptations of earlier plays. Dryden made a real attempt to integrate the music into the drama, but since he ascribed to the dramatic conventions of the period which virtually confined music to allegorical or supernatural beings and thier worshippers, or servants, shepherds and similar characters, the main action mostly occurs in the spoken sections, and even the two singing characters, Philidel and Grimbald speak more than they sing.

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Brave Souls (Purcell Henry)
Come If You Dare (Purcell Henry)
Come, Follow Me (Purcell Henry)
Come, Shepherds (Purcell Henry)
Fairest Isle (Purcell Henry)
For Love Ev'ry Creature (Purcell Henry)
Great Love (Purcell Henry)
Hither, This Way (Purcell Henry)
How Blest Are Shepherds (Purcell Henry)
How Happy The Lover (Purcell Henry)
I Call (Purcell Henry)
Let Not A Moonborn Elf (Purcell Henry)
No Part Of My Dominion (Purcell Henry)
Our Natives Not Alone Appear (Purcell Henry)
Recitative, 'The White Horse Neigh'd' (Purcell Henry)
Recitative, 'Woden First To Thee' (Purcell Henry)
Round Thy Coast (Purcell Henry)
Saint George (Purcell Henry)
See, See, We Assemble (Purcell Henry)
Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying (Purcell Henry)
Sound A Parley (Purcell Henry)
The Lot Is Cast (Purcell Henry)
Thou Doting Fool (Purcell Henry)
'tis I That Have Warm'd Ye (Purcell Henry)
To Woden Thanks We Render (Purcell Henry)
Two Daughters Of This Aged Stream (Purcell Henry)
What Ho! Thou Genius (Purcell Henry)
What Power Art Thou (Purcell Henry)
Ye Blust'ring Brethren (Purcell Henry)
You Say Tis Love (Purcell Henry)
Your Hay It Is Mow'd (Purcell Henry)