Act I | Overtura | (Orchestra) | Bb 4/4 |
Bb 4/4 Allegro | |||
Bb 3/4 Menuetto | |||
Recitative accompagnato Lichas | See, with what sad dejection in her looks | c-Ab 4/4 Largo | |
Air Lichas | No longer, fate, relentless frown | c 3/4 Larghetto | |
Recitative accompagnato Dejanira | O Hercules! why art thou absent from me? | (C) 4/4 Adagio | |
Air Dejanira | The world, when day's career is run | G 4/4 Larghetto | |
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Air Hyllus | I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast. | C 4/4 Pomposo | |
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Air Dejanira | There in myrtle shades reclin'd | G 4/4 Largho | |
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Air Hyllus | Where congeal'd the northern streams | g 3/4 Andante larghetto e staccato | |
Chorus | O filial piety, O gen'rous love! | c 3/4 Largo | |
Immortal fame attends thee | Eb 4/4 Andante | ||
O filial piety, O gen'rous love! | c 3/4 Largo | ||
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Air Dejanira | Begone, my fears, fly hence, away | A 4/4 Allegro | |
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Air Lichas | The smiling hours of joyful train | F 3/8 Allegro, ma non troppo | |
Chorus | Let none despair; relief may come though late | F 4/4 Andante allegro | |
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Air Iole | Daughter of gods, bright liberty! | d 3/4 Larghetto andante | |
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March | (Orchestra) | D 4/4 | |
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Air Iole | My father! Ah, methinks I see | c 4/4 Larghetto e mezzo piano | Peaceful rest, dear parent shade | Eb 3/4 Larghetto e piano |
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Air Hercules | The god of battle quits the bloody field | Bb 6/8 Allegro | |
Chorus | Crown with festal pomp the day | D 4/4 Allegro, ma non presto | |
Act II | Symphony | (Orchestra) | d 4/4 Allegro |
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Air Iole | How blest the maid ordained to dwell | G 3/8 Larghetto e piano | |
though low, yet happy in that low estate | g 4/4 Andante Larghetto | ||
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Air Dejanira | When beauty sorrow's livery wears | f# 4/4 Larghetto | |
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Air Iole | Ah, think what ills the jealous prove! | c 4/4 Andante | |
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Air Lichas | As stars, that rise and disappear | D 3/4 Andante larghetto | |
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Chorus | Jealousy! Infernal pest | e 3/4 Largo - Andante - Largo | |
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Air Iole | Banish love from thy breast | G 6/8 Allegro | |
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Air Hyllus | From celestial seats descending | d 12/8 Siciliana Larghetto | |
Chorus | Wanton god of amorous fires | d 4/4 Andante | |
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Air Hercules | Alcides' name in latest story | C 4/4 Allegro | |
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Air Dejanira | Resign thy club and lion's spoils | Bb 4/4 Andante | |
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Air Dejanira | Cease, ruler of the day, to rise | g 3/4 Larghetto e mezzo piano | |
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Air Lichas | Constant lovers, never roving | E 3/8 | |
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Duet Iole Dejanira | Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r | F 3/4 - 4/4 Allegro - Adagio | |
Chorus | Love and Hymen, hand in hand | Bb 2/2 | |
Act III | Sinfonia | (Orchestra) | a 4/4 Largo - Furioso |
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Air Lichas | O scene of unexampl'd woe, | f# 3/4 Largo | |
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Chorus | Tyrants now no more shall dread | G 3/4 Andante e larghetto | |
Accompagnato Hercules | O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst | c 4/4 | |
I rage, I rage | C 4/4 Concitato | ||
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Accompagnato Hercules | Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore? | C 4/4 | |
Air Hyllus | Let not fame the tidings spread | b 3/4 Andante | |
Accompagnato Dejanira | Where shall I fly? | (C) 4/4 | |
See, see, they come! | e 4/4 Concitato | ||
Hide me from their hated sight | e 3/4 Lento e piano | ||
See the dreadful sisters rise | e 4/4 Concitato | ||
Hide me from their hated sight | e 3/4 Lento | ||
Alas, no rest the guilty find | e 2/2 Concitato | ||
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Air Iole | My breast with tender pity swells | E 3/8 Largo | |
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Air Lichas | He, who for Atlas propp'd the sky | Bb 4/4 Andante | |
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Duet Iole Dejanira | O prince, whose virtues all admire, | A 3/8 Allegro | |
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Chorus | To him your grateful notes of praise belong | F 3/4 Allegro, ma non troppo |