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((Orestes, Old Servant) '. . . o dearest of servants!' . . . 'Whoever are you? Whose young . . .' 'You say this? When . . .' (Instrumental line) '. . . dearest one.' '. . . you have succeeded? Tell me!' 'I will . . . salvation came about.' 'What homecoming . . . back here to me?' 'From the instruction that came from Apollo.' 'Tell me, tell me . . . No joy is sweeter than the unexpected. . .' '. . . And then another sign made me eager . . .' '. . . I wouldn't know; but the present . . . fill me with wonder. . .' 'You speak of Aegisthus' . . .' 'He has . . . 'Afraid of what. . .?') |
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Setting of a tragic dialogue in iambics, generally following the word accents. Apart from one clausular fall from c' to f, the vocal part moves almost entirely in the register  , with a preference for the higher notes. The tonal centre seems to be d'. In the line of wordless notesassumed to represent an instrumental insert, though the notation is still the vocalwe find  as well as  , and also the lower notes g and (at the end, with an octave fall) d. The style is notably florid; the trisyllabic word aélptou, for example, is set to seven notes. The notation is Hyperionian. |
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