Music for a While

John Dryden & Nathaniel Lee Henry Purcell (arr SJS)

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
Molto Legato ( =92)
       

    

       
   
 Mu-sic, mu - sic for a while

  
                       
 Mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic for a while.

                 
Mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic for a while
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       
 
   


Mu
 - sic, mu - sic for a while

Shall

           
     
  
Mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic for a while

Shall

                  
 Mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic for a while

Shall

       
     
Mu - sic, mu - sic, mu - sic for a while Shall
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                    
 
 
all your cares be - guile Shall all,
 all all, Shall all, all


            
  
all your
 
cares be

- guile

Shall all, all all, Shall all,

              

all your cares be - guile Shall all, all all, Shall all,

    
           
all your cares be - guile Shall all, all all, Shall all, all

Copyright © 2019 by Simon J Shaw - All Rights Reserved

Incidental music to Oedipus (adapted by Dryden & Lee from Sophocles' play) published 1679
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 
      
    
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          


all,

Shall all your cares

be - guile Won - d'ring,

             
  
  
Shall all your cares be - guile, be-guile.
   Won - d'ring, won-d'ring

            

Shall all your cares be - guile,
  be - guile. Won - d'ring

             
all, shall all your cares be - guile, be - guile. Won - d'ring

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 
                    
   
won - d'ring how your pains were eas'd, eas'd,

         
    
how your pains, your pains were eas'd, eas'd,

               

how your pains, your pains were eas'd, eas'd,

               
won - d'ring won - d'ring how your pains were eas'd, eas'd, eas'd,

 
      
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             

eas'd,
 And
dis - dain - ing to be pleas'd Till Al - ec - to


               
eas'd,
 
And dis - dain - ing to be pleas'd Till Al - ec - to

                  
eas'd,
 dis - dain - ing to be pleas'd Till Al - ec - to
And

             
eas'd, And dis - dain - ing to be pleas'd
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               

 
   

free the dead,
 till Al - ec - to free the dead

From


                   

free the dead, Al - ec - to
 free the dead Al - ec - to free the dead
 From


              

   
free the dead, Al - ec - to free the dead From

      

From their e-

     
 
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
                


their e - ter - nal,
 e - ter-


          
their
 
e - ter - nal bands,

from their e - ter - nal

             
their
    
e - ter - nal, e - ter - nal, from their e - ter-

        
- ter - nal bands, from their e - ter - nal, e-

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     
 
       

 - nal bands.

 Till the snakes drop,

              

their e - ter - nal bands,

from their e - ter - nal bands.
 the snakes


               
-   nal bands,  e - ter - nal bands.
 Till the snakes
  
drop,

            
- ter - nal bands, from their e - ter - nal bands. Till the snakes drop,
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
         
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           


drop, drop, drop drop, drop, drop, drop,
 drop
her from

                 
  
drop, drop, drop, drop drop, drop, drop,

from her

                  

 
drop, drop, drop drop, drop,
 from her
                   

drop, drop, drop drop, drop, drop, drop, drop from her

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                

head. And the whip, and the whip from out her hands.

  
         
head. And the whip from out, out her hands.

            
    
head. And the whip from out, out her hands. And the whip from

   
          
head. And the whip from out, the whip from

   
 
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          

   Mu - sic  for a while
mu - sic for a
              
Mu
 
- sic, mu - sic, mu -
  
sic, mu - sic, mu - sic
  
for a

   
out her

hands.
 
Mu -
 sic for a

          
out her hands. Mu - sic, mu - sic for a
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  

poco cresc

            
while Shall
 
all cares be - guile Shall all,
 all all,
poco cresc
Shall

            
   
while Shall
              
all cares be - guile

Shall all, all all,

  
poco cresc

     
while Shall all your cares be - guile

 
Shall all, all all,

  
poco cresc

             
while Shall all your cares be - guile Shall all, all all, Shall

 
               
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
      
all,
 
all all, Shall

all your cares be - guile
 
Shall all,

             

   
Shall all, all, all
 
your cares be - guile.
   
Shall all, all,

          
 
Shall all, all, all your cares be - guile. Shall all, all

 
           
all, all all, shall all your cares be - guile. All,

   poco 
rall
 
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                


all all, Shall all your cares
 
Shall all your cares be - guile

   
           

all, shall all, all Shall all your cares be - guile
              
 
all,
  Shall
 
all, all all, shall
 
all your cares be - guile.

            
 
all, all, shall all your cares, shall all your cares be - guile