"Musick for a while" is from the incidental music to Oedipus. It is on page 126 of Book II of Orpheus Britannicus. The original key is C minor, here transposed down to A minor. The bass is unfigured in Orpheus. There is a continuo realization for keyboard, and realizations for guitar and baroque guitar. The baroque guitar part was written for a five course instrument with diapasons on the 4th and 5th string. In Greek mythology, Alecto was one of the furies, a goddess whose job is the castigation of those guilty of moral crimes. She had snakes for hair, dogs' head, bats' wings, and blood dripped from her eyes. She wields a studded whip. In Dryden's poem, the ext for this song, music calms Alecto until she drops her whip and the snakes fall from her head.
William F. Long, 2014
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"Musick for a while"
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Henry Purcell
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from Orpheus Britannicus
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Henry Purcell
&c
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Soprano & Guitar
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John Dryden
Henry Purcell
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from Orpheus Britannicus
Soprano John Dryden
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