the rape of the lock Excerpts

the rape of the lock Excerpts

The Game of Ombre (MIDI)
Belinda challenges the Baron and Plume to a popular card game, “Ombre.” The game is enacted by dancers, who form into three armies, and hurl themselves across the stage, occasionally descending into a restrained suggestiveness.

The Game of Ombre

All Nature is but Art (MIDI)

CHORAL OVERTURE

from “Essay on Man”

All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;

All chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;

All Discord, Harmony, not understood;

All partial Evil, Universal Good;

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