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Musick for a While (Henry Purcell)

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(Posted 2009-11-06) CPDL #20364:

Editor: Marie Ange (submitted 2009-10-18). Score information: A4 (landscape), 5 pages, 168 kbytes Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

CPDL #16379:

Editor: William Long (submitted 2008-03-18). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 100 kbytes Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transposed from c minor to a minor.

General Information

Title: Music for a While
Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1692

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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.

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