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{{Genre|Secular|Arias}} | {{Genre|Secular|Arias}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|Basso continuo}} | {{Instruments|Basso continuo realized for keyboard, guitar, or baroque guitar}} | ||
'''Published:''' 1692 | '''Published:''' 1692 | ||
'''Description:''' From the incidental music for ''Oedipus''. | '''Description:''' From the incidental music for ''Oedipus''. | ||
'''External websites:''' | '''External websites:''' | ||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== | ||
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CPDL #20364:
- Editor: Giuseppe Schinaia (submitted 2009-10-18). Score information: A4 (landscape), 5 pages, 168 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Contributed by Marie Ange.
- CPDL #16379:
- Editor: William Long (submitted 2008-03-18). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 100 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed from C minor to A minor.
General Information
Title: Music for a while
Composer: Henry Purcell
Lyricist: John Dryden
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo realized for keyboard, guitar, or baroque guitar
Published: 1692
Description: From the incidental music for Oedipus.
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Original text and translations
English text
Music for a while,
Shall all your Cares beguile,
Wond'ring how your Pains were eas'd,
And disdaining to be pleas'd,
Till Alecto free the Dead,
From their Eternal Band;
Till the Snakes drop from her Head;
and the Whip from out her Hand.