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\nThe famous Dido’s Lament from ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Henry Purcell. Features of Purcell’s style are unpacked and the word painting & emotional life of the music are explored. A Ground Bass is repeated 11 times, while the melodic line...\nThe famous Dido’s Lament from ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Henry Purcell. Features of Purcell’s style are unpacked and the word painting & emotional life of the music are explored. A Ground Bass is repeated 11 times, while the melodic line and harmony are varied. The chromatic nature of the bass combines with harmony that is evocative of a later period resulting in a powerful and emotional setting that makes this perhaps the most remarkable English piece of the Seventeenth Century.\n
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20:30
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9th - 12th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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2022
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English
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music theory, music composition, death, voice
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