Apollo
See more songs from Claudio Monteverdi Alessandro Striggio (The Younger)
Overview
High Note: D#4/Eb4
Low Note: D3
Analysis
Apollo hears Orfeo’s lamentations, after Orfeo has returned from the underworld, and he comes to console him. Orfeo’s devotion to Euridice has earned him a place in heaven, and Apollo wants to take him there, but only after he has delivered the moral message of this story;
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