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The Blessed Virgin's expostulation
Song Title
The Blessed Virgin's expostulation (
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Composer(s):
Henry Purcell
Author(s):
Nahum Tate
Keyword(s) & Features:
Angels
;
Beguiling
;
Birth
;
Blessed
;
Calling
;
Caressing
;
Cruel
;
Darling
;
Daughters
;
Deserts
;
Desperate
;
Devoted
;
Devotion
;
Doubts
;
Dramatic
;
Dreams
;
Eyes
;
Fair
;
Faith
;
Familial Love
;
Farewell
;
Flattering
;
Footsteps
;
Gabriel
;
God
;
Herod
;
Holy Virgin
;
Hope
;
Jesus
;
Judah
;
Kingdom of Judah
;
Longing
;
Love
;
Mary
;
Melismas
;
Mothers
;
Pitying
;
Questioning
;
Questions
;
Recitative
;
Religious
;
Sacred
;
Savages
;
Souls
;
Sweet
;
Telling
;
Tigers
;
Tyrants
;
Visions
;
Wilderness
;
Wonder
;
Wondering
First Line
Tell me, some pitying angel (
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Average Duration
7:15 (
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Year of composition
1693 (
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) Published
Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15617
Larger Work
Harmonia Sacra (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/cd/Purcell-The_Blessed_Virgin%27s_Expostulation%28b%29.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/3985VaOD2FKKQKxqU96uy3?si=TxFMJ9oORHufNe5-Wr8tkQ
Catalog Designation
Z 196 (
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Range:
D#4 - G5 (
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Original Key
B minor (
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Notes
Benjamin Britten wrote a piano realization of this piece. (
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Other instrumentation and voice
Can be performed with harpsichord, continuo, lute (
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Contributor
JEM (
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