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Dido's Lament ("When I am laid in earth") is the closing aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. Dido's Lament chromatic fourth ground bass, measures 1–6 [1] It is included in many classical music textbooks to illustrate the descending chromatic fourth (passus duriusculus) in the ground bass.
Movement 25, Aria and Chorus, "A thousand thousand ways we'll find" Movement 26, 3rd Act Tune (Hornpipe) Act 4 Movement 27, Symphony – Sonata while the sun rises; Movement 28, Aria and Chorus, "Now the night is chas'd away" Movement 29, Duet, "Let the fifes, and the clarions" Movement 30, Entry of Phoebus
"Music for a While" is a da capo aria for voice (usually soprano or tenor), harpsichord and bass viol by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Based on a repeating ground bass pattern, it is the second of four movements from his incidental music (Z 583) to Oedipus, a version of Sophocles' play by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, published ...
Henry Purcell (/ ˈ p ɜːr s əl /, rare: / p ər ˈ s ɛ l /; [n 1] c. 10 September 1659 [n 2] – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628), is a semi-opera [1] in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden.It was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June 1691.
Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) [1] is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain.
Come Ye Sons of Art, Z.323, [a] also known as Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday, is a musical composition by Henry Purcell. It was written in 1694, and is one of a series of odes in honour of the birthday of Queen Mary II of England. [1] The text of the ode is often attributed to Nahum Tate, who was poet laureate at the time.
Later in the same century, Henry Purcell became famous for his skilful deployment of ground bass patterns. His most famous ostinato is the descending chromatic ground bass that underpins the aria "When I am laid in earth" ("Dido's Lament") at the end of his opera Dido and Aeneas: Purcell, Dido's Lament ground bass Purcell, Dido's Lament ground bass