• securely rest While you express your jollity! Nymphs and shepherds, come away. Nymphs and shepherds, pipe and play, Tune a song, a festal lay; For this is...
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    Thomas Shadwell (category Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
    veins inspires". Lieder.net. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2018. "Nymphs and Shepherds". Lieder.net. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2018.  This article incorporates...
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  • musical written and composed by Victoria Wood. It is based on a true story of the reunion of a famous recording of "Nymphs and Shepherds" in 1929 by The...
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    particular scenes and characters. Thus strings, harpsichords and recorders represent the pastoral fields of Thrace with their nymphs and shepherds, while heavy...
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    fatally bitten by a serpent. Scene 1 All of the nymphs and shepherds gather to celebrate the wedding of Orfeo and Euridice. Scene 2 Orfeo is content after his...
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    Nymph and Shepherd (Italian Ninfa e pastore; German: Nymphe und Schäfer), also called Shepherd and Nymph, is an oil painting by the Venetian master Titian...
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    literature, "The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd" (1600), by Walter Raleigh, is a poem that responds to and parodies the poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”...
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    written by Eric Sykes, acc. by Billy Ternent and His Orchestra "All's Going Well"/"Nymphs and Shepherds" (1953), Philips Records PB214, with Margaret...
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    often depicted nymphs and shepherds as living a life of rustic innocence and peace, set in Arcadia, a region of Greece that was the abode and center of worship...
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    (1616–1678) and the Rotterdamsche Arcadia (1703) of Willem den Elger (died 1703). But the original work of Heemskerk, in which a party of nymphs and shepherds go...
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    collection contains the following couplet at the end: “Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana: long live fair Oriana” (the word "Oriana" often being used...
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    of the myth, a group of Messapian shepherds declared themselves better dancers than the Epimelides nymphs (the nymphs that tend to the flocks), not realizing...
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    Manchester concert and the Guardian writer noted his extraordinary subtleties of tone and feeling. Nymphs and Shepherds Nymphs and shepherds, come away. In...
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  • Amadeus Mozart) (1927) Argentine Dance (music by Artello) (1927) Nymphs and Shepherds (music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (1928) Leda (music by Christoph...
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    2020. Chester Music Ltd (World) (2020). "Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract) (1982)". Wise Music Classical. Retrieved...
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    "Cerambycidae" comes from a Greek mythological figure: after an argument with nymphs, the shepherd Cerambus is transformed into a large beetle with horns. Longhorn...
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    nymphs), the Dryads (oak tree nymphs), the Alseids (grove nymphs), the Naiads (spring nymphs), the Nereids (sea nymphs), the Oceanids (ocean nymphs)...
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    Movement 1, Song, "Nymphs and Shepherds/We come" Movement 2, Prelude and Song, "Prepare, prepare, new guests draw near" Movement 3, Prelude and Song, "To arms...
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  • Melissa (category Nymphs)
    natal day. Hither ye nymphs and shepherds haste, Each with a flow'ry chaplet grac'd, With transport while the shades resound, And Nature spreads her charms...
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    characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of...
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    staging, and audience. The first lines of arias, choruses, etc., are given in Italian (1762 version) and French (1774 version). A chorus of nymphs and shepherds...
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  • seeks revenge, and becomes the lover of the Queen. Together, they poison King Phillip, and also murder the young King Ferdinand. Abdelazer and the Queen try...
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    as the First Sailor's song, "Take a boozy short leave of your nymphs on the shore, and silence their mourning with vows of returning, though never intending...
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  • Lament ("When I am laid in earth") is the closing aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. It is included in many...
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    "Haymaking", "Adlestrop", "Will You Come?" and "Lights Out" by Edward Thomas "All's Going Well" / "Nymphs and Shepherds" (1953) (with Frankie Howerd): Philips...
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    (Pluto) (bass) Apollo (tenor) Ninfa (Nymph) (soprano) Eco (Echo) (tenor) Ninfe e pastori (Nymphs and shepherds) (Chorus: soprano, alto, tenor, bass....
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    performances. Shepherds and nymphs enjoy "the pleasure of the plains". Galatea, a semi-divine nymph, is in love with the shepherd Acis, and tries to hush...
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    Sentences and the later Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860. Two of the funeral sentences, "Man that is born of a woman" Z. 27 and "In the midst...
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    pieces on the 1929 recording (Purcell's "Nymphs and Shepherds" and the Evening Benediction from Hansel and Gretel) the score for the musical was written...
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    inaugurate the wedding festivities. Gods and muses, nymphs and shepherds, join in the celebrations of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, wishing the newly-weds long...
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