VI. Sorrow now invites Music; asserting her need to be the chiefest. The occasion being the celebration of Purcell’s genius, her complaint implies a call for some musical lament for his untimely death.

VII. Music replies with a DIRGE for the dead artist; offering no consolation beyond the expression of woe.

VIII. The chorus consoled, praise dead artists, and pronounce them happy and immortal.

IX. A picture of the ideal world of delight created by Art.

X. The invocation repeated, with the idea of responsibility of our colonization.


ODE TO MUSIC
Written for the Bicentenary Commemoration
of
HENRY PURCELL