Dido and Aeneas, Z.626
Z.
Dido and Æneas
Sheet music
Sheet music
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· 56 editions
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Composed
1677-88
First published
1689
Period
Baroque
Catalogue
Z.
Dedication
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Movements
3
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Movements
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3
acts: Overture; *Act I 1. Solo and Chorus: Shake the Cloud 2. Song: Ah! Belinda 3. Recitative: Grief Increases 4. Chorus: When Monarchs Unite 5. Recitative: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring 6. Duet and Chorus: Fear No Danger 7. Recitative: See Your Royal Guest 8. Chorus: Cupid Only 9. Recitative: If Not for Mine 10. Air: Persue Thy Conquest 11. Chorus: To the Hills and the Vales 12: The Triumphing Dance; *Act II 13. Prelude for the Witches 14. Chorus: Harm's Our Delight 15. Recitative: The Queen of Carthage 16. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho! 17. Recitative: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun 18. Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho! 19. Duet: But, Ere we This Perform 20. Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell 21. Echo Dance of Furies 22. Ritornelle 23. Song and Chorus: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales 24. Song: Oft She Visits 25. Recitative: Behold, Upon My Bended Spear 26. Song and Chorus: Haste to Town 27. Recitative: Stay, Prince; *Act III 28. Prelude, Song and Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors 29. The Sailors' Dance 30a. Recitative: See the Flags 30b. Song: Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm 31. Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight 32. The Witches' Dance 33. Recitative: Your Counsel 34. Recitative: But Death, Alas! 35. Chorus: Great Minds 36. Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda 37. Song: When I am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament) 38. With Drooping Wings
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