KeyDm
Metre4/4
Tempo68 BPM
Tempo notesSlow
FactoidPopularly 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.