by Purcell
Music for a While was written by Henry Purcell, composed around 1692 as part of his incidental music (Z. 583) for the play Oedipus. The song for voice and continuo, built over a repeating ground bass, sets an English text from John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee's adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy. It has become one of Purcell's best-known solo songs and is frequently performed and recorded in the Baroque vocal repertoire.
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