- This overture is from Arne’s music for 1738 adaptation of Comus, a masque (play with music) by John Milton.
- Form: French overture (Baroque form beginning with regal dotted rhythms followed by fugal passage).
- Comus by John Milton (1608-1674) is an allegory about temptation. A Lady lost in a forest is kidnapped and enchanted by a tempter named Comus; the Lady’s brothers must rescue her and break the spell. 1
Sources
- Peter Holman and Todd Gilman, “Arne, Thomas Augustine,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 11, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040018.
Cut IDs
17637 49156