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Orpheus with his lute is interesting. It is written for soprano and contralto; it was first sung by the Misses Broughton, two celebrated artists. The composer, in the phrasing of the first two lines, actually makes sense of them--a very rare thing to happen to the musician setting these words; but afterwards he falls from grace. With only a fair number of repetitions he gets to the end of the second verse, but then goes back to the first, and finishes at the end of it, utterly failing to see how right Fletcher or Shakespeare was in concluding with the perfect lines,
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Killing care and grief of heart, fall asleep or hearing die.
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Three Dances, well known and popular throughout the world. I once heard them in Germany, under the extraordinary title of
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Three German Dances from Saint Saëns's _Henry VIII._,