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Dictionary definition: Comus
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- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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Copyright© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
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Comus.
Masque by John Milton prod. at Ludlow Castle 1634 with mus. by Henry
Lawes
, who himself took the part of the Attendant Spirit. New mus. was provided for an adapted version of the poem by Thomas
Arne
in 1738. In 1942, for a ballet ...
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