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(A wild crash . . . dark cloud in the recesses . . . apparitions of the dead . . . on his wheel of bondage, Ixion . . . at the river, Tantalus . . . the Phrygian women dropped their swords down on the earth . . . came in support: be brave, poor Deidameia! . . . and up to the light came Achilles. For the cowardly Trojan women . . . abandoning their drawn swords. Then I heard a sweet voice . . . I recognized the sound for sure, and the whole . . . sank, mistress . . . near Pyrrhus . . . unseen . . .) |
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The rhythm is anapaestic, and the composition certainly of late date. The text contains more than one version of certain bars, and seems to have been written by the composer of the music, changing his mind here and there as he wrote. The music is in the florid style, with |
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