"Pills to Purge Melancholy (1988) 2." genre: Contemporary
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	2. Oh! My Panting, Panting Heart
	CD: Maurice Saylor: Songs   Label: Purple Gallinule Credits: Jennifer Blood Robertson, soprano; David Mathers, piano
	Story Behind the Song Maurice Saylor's Pills to Purge Melancholy were written in 1988 using anonymous English texts from the late Seventeenth century. The Five songs are woven together by an elaborate fabric of motifs that allows a running musical commentary that links ideas from one song to another. For example, the leisurely accompaniment at the opening of the first song, which represents the walking motion of the two characters, is used at a much faster tempo in the last song to represent the endless pursuit of one person after another. The chords of Oh! My Panting, Panting Heart are reused in all five songs at moments of unconsummated passion. The songs were written for and dedicated to American soprano Jeanice Brooks. Lyrics II. Oh! My Panting, Panting Heart Oh! my Panting, panting Heart, Why so Young, and why so sad? Why does Pleasure seem a Smart, Or Im wretched while Im Glad? Oh! Lovers Goddess, who wert formd, From Cold and Icy, Icy Seas; Instruct me why I am thus warmd! And Darts at once can wound and please.

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