From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part II, L’Allegro
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
G major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Allegro → Adagio → Tempo I |
Length |
71 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Orpheus’ self may heave his head |
From golden slumbers on a bed |
Of heap’d Elysian flow’rs, and hear |
Such strains as would have won the ear |
Of Pluto, to have quite set free |
His half-regain’d Eurydice. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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