From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, L’Allegro
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
G major → C major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Largo |
Length |
19 measures |
English text |
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Tenor |
Hence loathed Melancholy |
Of Cerberus, and blackest midnight born, |
In Stygian cave forlorn |
‘Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy, |
Find out some uncouth cell, |
Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, |
And the night-raven sings; |
There under ebon shades, and low-brow’d rocks, |
As ragged as thy locks, |
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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