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Originally composed to be sung by a soprano castrato (and typically sung in modern performances of Serse by a countertenor, contralto or a mezzo-soprano; sometimes even by a tenor or high baritone an octave below), [1] it has been arranged for other voice types and instruments, including solo organ, solo piano, violin or cello and piano, and string ensembles, often under the title "Largo from ...
Title page of the libretto, London 1738. Serse (Italian pronunciation:; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel.It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738.
Xérxēs (Ξέρξης) is the Greek and Latin (Xerxes, Xerses) transliteration of the Old Iranian Xšaya-ṛšā ("ruling over heroes"), which can be seen by the first part xšaya, meaning "ruling", and the second ṛšā, meaning "hero, man". [5] The name of Xerxes was known in Akkadian as Ḫi-ši-ʾ-ar-šá and in Aramaic as ḥšyʾrš. [6]
Xerces may refer to: Apache Xerces, a family of software packages for parsing and manipulating XML; Xerces blue (Glaucopsyche xerces), an extinct butterfly; The Xerces Society, an environmental organization that focuses on invertebrates "Xerces", a song by Deftones on the album Saturday Night Wrist; Xerces was the original French spelling of ...
Songfacts is a music-oriented website that has articles about songs, detailing the meaning behind the lyrics, how and when they were recorded, and any other info that can be found. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Xerxes, character in Disney's Aladdin; XERXES, an Artificial intelligence in the video game System Shock 2; Xerxes Khodaiji, the protagonist of the film Little Zizou; Xerxes Break, a character in Pandora Hearts
[5] Indeed, the lyrics contain the lines "In the corner playing dominoes in drag/The one and only Madame George". Artist Mark Wallinger said of "Madame George": "The sense of desire and loss expressed in this song is so sad because it dares one to try to hear it again as if for the first time. It describes our exile from our past.
Personent hodie in the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones, image combined from two pages of the source text. "Personent hodie" is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 Medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jacobus Finno (Jaakko Suomalainen), a Swedish Lutheran cleric, and published by T.P. Rutha. [1]