GODFREY FINGER: While I with wounding grief did look PDF SCORE

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Composed by Godfrey Finger (1660 - 1730). From Thesaurus Musicus, Book IV, 1695.
Evelyn Tubb, soprano
Anthony Rooley, lute, theorbo
The reaction to Bracegirdle's "I Burn, I Burn" demonstrates her considerable powers as an actress-singer: her performance was a cultural phenomenon. Thomas D'Urfey, perhaps self-servingly perpetuating the legend of Bracegirdle, composed a laudatory poem about the actress's performance in his play. Two composers, Gottfried Finger and Henry Purcell, set versions of this text. Finger's setting, "While I with Wounding Grief Did Look" is published in the fourth book of Thesaurus Musicus (1695). Finger and Purcell's songs give us a rare opportunity to gauge (male) audience response to the spectacle of female madness. Just as Charles II was seduced by Moll Davis, the text composed by D'Urfey suggests that he was seduced by Bracegirdle's/Marcella's madness. But it was more than seduction. By listening to her siren song, he was actually transformed, his humoral balance altered, rendering him lovesick as well.- Amanda Eubanks Winkler, O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-century English Stage, 2006