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by John Dryden (1631 - 1700) and by Nathaniel Lee (1653? - 1692)

Music for a while
Language: English 
Our translations:  CAT FRE
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile:
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.

Text Authorship:

  • by John Dryden (1631 - 1700) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
  • by Nathaniel Lee (1653? - 1692) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Music for a while", 1947 [ voice and piano ], a realization of the Purcell song. Confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Music for a while", Z. 583 no. 2, included in Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the choicest songs for One, Two, and Three Voices, Vol. II (1692?)  [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Wim Zwaag (b. 1960), "Music for a while", 2003 [ soprano and cello ], from Music for a while, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Música per una estona", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La musique pour un moment", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

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