Alfred Deller is best-known for reviving dramatic works and songs by this composer.
Alfred Deller is best-known for reviving dramatic works and songs by this composer. He used a three-bar ground bass in C minor for an aria often sung by a countertenor, whose lyrics describe snakes dropping from the head of the Fury Alecto. Originally written for a performance of Oedipus, that song was later published in this composer's posthumous collection Orpheus Britannicus. Musicologist Franklin Zimmerman primarily studies this composer's music, and compiled the Z numbers used to catalogue his works. He wrote an opera whose final aria is based on a chromatically descending (*) ground bass in G minor and 3/2 time. Today, countertenors often perform this composer's Music for a While. A chorus of witches and a chorus of sailors are characters in an opera by this composer in which the handmaid Belinda witnesses the aria "When I am laid in Earth" sung by her sister, the title queen of Carthage. For 10 points, name this composer of Dido and Aeneas.
Alfred Deller is best-known for reviving dramatic works and songs by this composer.
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