This G minor aria uses perfect cadences to create a powerful motif of fate and employs a chromatic five measure ground bass pattern that lasts ten cycles.
This G minor aria uses perfect cadences to create a powerful motif of fate and employs a chromatic five measure ground bass pattern that lasts ten cycles. It has its singer proclaim, "May my wrongs create / No trouble in thy breast" and request, "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." Followed by its opera's final chorus, "With Drooping Wings," and preceded by a despair-ridden recitative to the singer's sister, "Thy Hand, Belinda," this is, FTP, what aria sang just before the death of the Queen of Carthage in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas?
This G minor aria uses perfect cadences to create a powerful motif of fate and employs a chromatic five measure ground bass pattern that lasts ten cycles.
“{When I am Laid in Earth}” (prompt on “Dido’s Lament”)