When Orpheus went down (William Boyce)

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(Posted 2022-08-11) CPDL #70354:

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-08-11). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 116 kB Copyright: CC BY SA

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Unfigured bass realised editorially.

General Information

Title: When Orpheus went down
Composer: William Boyce
Lyricist: Thomas Lisle^{create page}
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1754
Description: A song probably written for performance in the London pleasure gardens. Published in The Muses Delight, Liverpool.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at When Orpheus went down.