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ISWC
T9181726965
ISRC
GB-FFM-13-96431
GVL Label Code
27831
Release Year
2013
Key
Dm
Metre
4/4
Tempo
68BPM
Tempo notes
Slow
Factoid
Popularly known as 'Dido's Lament', this melody is taken from Purcell's 17th century opera, Dido and Aeneas. The opera is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid and recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her.