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Dido's Lament

aria composed by Henry Purcell
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Dido's Lament

Summary

Dido's Lament is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (444 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dido's Lament's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Dido's Lament's composer is recorded as Henry Purcell[4].
  • Dido's Lament's genre is lament[5].
  • Dido's Lament is part of Dido and Aeneas[6].
  • Dido's Lament's Commons category is recorded as Dido's Lament[7].
  • Dido's Lament's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • Dido's Lament's characters is recorded as Dido[9].
  • Dido's Lament's tonality is recorded as G minor[10].
  • Dido's Lament's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Dido's Lament (When I am laid)"}[11].
  • Dido's Lament's form of creative work is recorded as aria[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2fd7a21c-d490-4c8e-b1c8-94402af5dc61[13]

Body

Publication

Dido's Lament's language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Its genre is lament[5]. It is part of Dido and Aeneas[6].

Why It Matters

Dido's Lament ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (444 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Henry Purcell

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The Opera Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . The Opera Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . The Opera Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . The Opera Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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