Music

for a while
From Orpheus Britannicus


Henry Purcell

 
      
 
 = 40 Original key : C minor
1

 
           
Alto

    
        
Mu sic,


        
                   
  
Clavecin

     
              
  
   
5
A.

 

        
               
mu sic for a while, Shall all your cares be guile, shall all, all,

  
                
       
 
Cla.

   
                 
    
8
A.

    
          
          
all, shall all, all, all shall all, your cares be guile; wond

    
       
           
 
    
Cla.

        
                
  
11
A.

  
                  
 

d'ring, wond d'ring how your pains were eas'd, eas'd

     
           
       


 
Cla.


Continuo realized by W. F. Long
    
                           

14
A.

  
                
            
eas'd And dis dain ing to be pleas'd, till A lec to free the

     
  
    
                   
Cla.

  


 
          
           

17
A.

  
     
        
death, till A lec to free the death, from their e ter

     
       
               
Cla.

            
    
  
20
A.

 
                       
      
nal, e ter nal bands,

  
 
                
      
Cla.

 

   
                      
       
23
A.

        
                
     
Till the Snakes drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop,

   
  
  
           
          
Cla.

2 Continuo realized by W. F. Long

   

                   
  
26
A.

 
                    
         
from herhead, and the whip, and the whipfrom out her hands.

      
 
     
 

              
Cla.

  
       
           
        
    
29
A.

      
    
               
     
    
Mu sic, mu sic for a while shall all your cares be guile; shall all, all,

  
  
                       
   
Cla.


   
                      
       
33
A.

 
             
             
          
all, all, all, all, all, shall all,yourcares be guile, all, all, all, all, all, all, all,

          
           
             
  
Cla.


           
  
37
A.

 
         
all, shall all, your cares be guile.

      
      
   
Cla.


La musique un moment,
Trompera tous vos tourments.
Vous vous étonnerez de voir vos douleurs soulagées,
Et ne daignerez être satisfaits,
Jusqu'à ce qu'Alecto libère les morts
De leurs liens éternels ;
Jusqu'à ce que les serpents tombent de sa tête,
Et le fouet de ses mains.

Continuo realized by W. F. Long 3