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Dulces Exuviae

August 12, 2019

Purcell wasn’t the only composer to set the story of Dido and Aeneas. This week’s post is the gorgeous “Dulces Exuviae” of Jean Mouton, his version of Dido’s lament ~200 years earlier.
Read the text here, and then listen below!

In Early Music Monday Tags Mouton, Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Listening
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