Works
Greene wrote a good deal of both sacred and secular vocal music, including:
- the anthem Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children (1728)
- the oratorio The Song of Deborah and Barak (1732)
- the oratorio Jephtha (1737)
- the opera Florimel (1734)
- settings of sonnets from Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (1739)
- a collection of anthems (1743), of which the best-known is Lord, let me know mine end.
- the opera Phoebe (completed 1747)
He also published keyboard music, including:
- Choice Lessons, for harpsichord or spinet (London, 1733)
- 6 Overtures … in Seven Parts, arranged for harpsichord or spinet (London, 1745)
- A Collection of Lessons, for harpsichord (London, 1750)
- Twelve Voluntarys, for organ or harpsichord (London, 1779)
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