THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
Airs I-III are not traceable ("From Virue's sluggish Rules be free," "Mary's Dream" and "Alteration").
Air IV: "Duett" to the tune "An Old Woman Cloathed in Gray" is the familiar first tune of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, ed. Edgar V. Roberts (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969), pp. 94-95.
Air V: Van Butchel's song ("See Martin dus his goods display") is not in the songbooks. Prof. Roberts suggests the lyrics could fit the music of "Lillibullero," sometimes used for songs in dialect. Henry Purcell wrote or arranged this Irish burden which was used in 12 ballad operas, including Fielding's Don Quixote in England (1733). Simpson (p. 454) gives one example in dialect: "By Creist my dear Morish vat makes de sho'shad" (ca. 1689).
Air VI: "Shelah O'Sudds" (to the tune "The Siege of Troy") is not traceable.
Air VII: "Medley. Tune, 'Petition Poor Vulcan'" is from Charles Dibdin's burletta Poor Vulcan! (London 1778) which begins: "The humble prayer and petition/Of Vulcan, who his sad condition" (I, 1, p. 7).
Air VIII: "Tune. Hunting Chorus, 'Poor Vulcan'" is the "Chorus and Air" from Dibdin's Poor Vulcan! It begins: "Blacksmith: 'Strike, strike, ton, ton ton, ron'/Huntsman: 'Sound, Sound, tan, ran, ran, tan'" (I, ii, p. 10).
Air IX: "Tune: 'Finale 1st act Poor Vulcan!'" seems to be the song "Pike; 'Pooltroon! Damnation! Zounds, unhand me;/ Either you villain, eat that word,'" (Poor Vulcan! I, p. 23).
Air X: "Medley. Tune, 'Black Joke'" is Leveridge's song of 1730. See E. V. Roberts, ed. Henry Fielding, The Grub-Street Opera (p. 105) and Charles Wood's The Author's Farce (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966), p. 116.
Air XI: "Welcome, Brother Debtor" appears in many eighteenth-century song collections, including Henry Roberts' Calliope; or, English Harmony, a collection of ... English and Scots tunes (London, 1739-1749), p. 315.
Airs XII, XIII and XIV are not traceable. ("Medley tunes 'Stoney Batter,' 'Tyburn Tree,' and 'Ballance a Straw.'")
Air XV: "Bailiff's Song" has no tune and is not traceable.
Air XVI: "Mind the Golden Rule" is not identifiable.
Air XVII: "Tune 'Mary's Lamentation'" is the old ballad (set to the music of "Crimson Velvet"), the "lamentable complaint" of Queen Mary for the "unkind departure" of King Philip, "in whose absence she fell sick, and died," which begins "Mary doth complain;/Ladies be you moved," and appears in Richard Johnson's Crown Garland of Roses (1659), ed. Chappell, 1895. Though popular in the seventeenth century, it may have been written soon after Queen Mary's death in 1558 (Simpson, p. 141). Verses similar to Air XVII ("I Sigh and lament me in vain,/These Walls can but echo my moan,") appeared in Signior Giordani's "Queen Mary's Lamentation," printed in Domenico Corri's Select Collection of 1779 (III, No. 71).
Air XVIII: The "Clown's Song" seems to have been specially composed for this work.
Air XIX: "Tune: 'Let us take the Road'" is the famous "March in Rinaldo" by Handel. See Air XX, The Beggar's Opera (Act II, ed. Roberts, pp. 130-131).
Air XX: "Ballad Tune: 'The Race Horse'" with the title "The Rake's Progress." Thomas D'Urfey's tune is called "The Race Horse," and begins "To Horse, brave Boys of Newmarket, to Horse," and is "set to an excellent Scotch tune" called "Cock up thy Beaver" (Simpson, p. 112). It was first published with the music in D'Urfey's Choice New Songs (1684) and appears as an untitled air in Kane O'Hara's comic opera Midas (1764; ARS 167). It is also called "Newmarket," or "Newmarket Horse Race," Air XXII of the 1730 and 1750 versions of Fielding's The Author's Farce. The music is printed in Woods's edition of The Author's Farce, p. 133.
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