Love thou art best of human joys, Z 596/1 (Henry Purcell)
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- Editor: William Long (submitted 2008-03-18). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 120 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Love thou art best of Humane Joys
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: Anne Finch
Number of voices: 2vv Voicing: Soprano duo
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo
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Description: From the incidental music to The Female Virtuosos.
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Love thou art best of Humane Joys:
Our chiefest happiness below;
All other Pleasures are but Toys,
Musick without that is but Noise
and Beauty but an empty show.
Heaven who knew best what Men cou'd move,
And raise his thoughts above the Brute;
Said let him Love;
That, that, that alone,
must his Soul improve;
Howe'er Philosophers dispute.