Musick for a While (Henry Purcell)
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CPDL #16379:
- Editor: William Long (added 2008-03-18). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 100 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Transposed from c minor to a minor.
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General Information
Title: Musick for a While
Composer: Henry Purcell
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Bass continuo.
Published: 1692
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Original text and translations
English text
Musick 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.
