Music for a While

Music for a While is a musical composition by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, the second of the four movements of the piece composed by him in 1692 (Z 583) and intended for the theater play by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus.

Among the many various arrangements of this piece, here is this extraordinary a capella version by The King’s Singers and Jakub Józef Orliński.

Lyrics

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.

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