He included the ground-bass song "Music for a while" in his incidental music for a play on the Oedipus story, and he included the countertenor duet "Sound the trumpet" in his birthday ode
Michael Nyman quoted this composer in his works Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds and Memorial. This composer used four flatt trumpets, a type of slide trumpet, in a march and canzona that he wrote for a royal funeral. He included the ground-bass song "Music for a while" in his incidental music for a play on the Oedipus story, and he included the countertenor duet "Sound the trumpet" in his birthday ode "Come, Ye Sons of Art." This composer also wrote the "Monkey's Dance," which is followed by the Chinese Woman's aria "Hark! Now the Echoing Air," in a work in which Juno sings (*) "Thrice Happy Lovers" and "The Plaint," and the character of The Drunken Poet is added to an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Dioclesian, King Arthur, and The Fairy-Queen are among this composer's semi-operas. For 10 points, name this English composer who included the lament "When I am laid in earth" in his opera Dido and Aeneas.
Michael Nyman quoted this composer in his works Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds and Memorial.
Henry Purcell