#dido's lament

[banji-effect]

Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate.

#Jessye Norman #purcell #dido's lament

[broadway-nepeta]

:33< all sophisticated cats are familiar with opurra :33

[Song: Dido's Lament, as performed in Castlevania Nocturne | Lyrics unchanged under cut]

When I am laid

Am laid in earth

May my wrongs create no trouble

No trouble in thy breast

Remember me

Remember me

But, ah… forget my fate

Remember me

But ah, forget my fate

#broadwaystuck #broadway nepeta #homestuck #nepeta leijon #nepeta homestuck #castlevania nocturne #dido's lament #((can you tell Mod AC became immediately obsessed with this show))

[mellowchouchou]

all other versions of Dido’s Lament < Jeff Buckley’s version

When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create no trouble, no trouble in thy breast; remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.

#Jeff Buckley #Dido's Lament #Dido and Aeneas #Henry Purcell #classical music #opera #17th century #1990s

[freddyfreeman]

I <3 Kirsten Flagstad, and I also <3 Baroque music. 

This rendition is top

#dido's lament #kirsten flagstad #henry purcell #soprano

[benevolentgodloki]

Not at all been putting this to Loki's death scene, too. Nope.

When I am laid, am laid in earth,

May my wrongs create no trouble,

No trouble in, in thy breast.

Remember me

Remember me

But ah! Forget my fate.

#I know Asgardians don't get buried but shh #gotg 3 spoilers #Loki's playlist #dido's lament #Spotify

[nobletruths]

Annie Lennox & the London City Voices | Dido's Lament from the opera Dido and Aeneas / composer Henry Purcell | c. 1683-1688

#annie lennox #london city voices #henry purcell #english baroque #Dido's Lament #dido and aeneas #baroque opera #Youtube

[kaanozer]

Lyricist: Nahum Tate Producer: Adam Abeshouse Recording Engineer: Ryan Freeland

#Dido's Lament #Simone Dinnerstein #Tift Merrit #Henry Purcell #ses

[frisbs]

When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in thy breast; Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you, I’ll tell you that But if I didn't say it, well, I’d still have felt it Where's the sense in that? I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder I’ll return to where we were

But I will go down with this ship And I won't put my hands up and surrender There will be no white flag above my door I'm in love and always will be

#white flag #opera #dido's lament #dido #music

[rabiscoseoutraspalavras]

#david bergmüller #david orlowsky #dido's lament #alter ego #music #música

[mayasaura]

I think we figured out which hero John is modeling himself after!

We were talking about the options, and @monstrousgourmandizingcats suggested Aeneas. While Aeneas isn't technically Greek, he is in the Homeric Hymns and the frequently-referenced Iliad. So get this:

First, check out these two proposed etymologies of Aeneas' name:

The grief of mortality, and a god in mortal form.

Now the real argument. In the Iliad, Aeneas is the sole survivor of the royal house of Troy. After the destruction of the city he gathers the surviving Trojans onto ships, assigned by the Gods to take his people to a new home destined for them across the sea. The course of this journey is the subject of Virgil's Aeneid, and the beginning of the founding myth of Rome.

It's easy to see how John would relate to the survivor of a destroyed home, and fashion himself after a king who leads his people out of the ashes and into a new existence. He's definitely intentionally leaning heavily into Roman aesthetics. (Like, for example, the twelve Lictors that were appointed to dispence justice at the founding of Rome). It's Aeneas' descendant Romulus who is said to have founded the empire, but seeing as John's immortal I think his metaphor can be excused in skipping over the intervening generations.

Then Tamsyn says that John was given all the traits of this specific hero, so what traits define Aeneas? Devotion to the memory of his home, his duty to his divine destiny. And falling in love with, screwing over, then abandoning a very powerful woman.

In their journey to Italy, Aeneas and the Trojans find themselves guests of Queen Dido of Carthage. Aeneas falls in love with Dido, and seduces her with the help of his mother Venus. There are some complicated games played by gods that I don't want to get into, but in the end Mercury tells Aeneas to walk out on Dido because his destiny is to found a great empire somewhere else. Justifying himself by claiming that he and Dido were never technically married, dutiful Aeneas does so. His abrupt exit leaves Dido furious, heartbroken, dishonored, and in a very precarious political position. She curses Aeneas and his fated empire, then kills herself.

Depending on how it all went down, there could be overtones of Aeneas' flight from Carthage in John's flight from the First. Aeneas' betrayal of Dido in John's betrayal of Alecto, choosing empire over personal loyalty. But what really grabs me is the way the narrative presents Aeneas' agency in all this. Or rather, his lack thereof.

When Dido demands an explanation of Aeneas, he defers to a higher authority. It is not his fault or his own will causing him to leave her, but fate and the Gods' commandment.

It reminded me strongly of John's refusal to help protect Harrow from Gideon the First's murder attempts.

God cannot appeal to the gods to cede responsibility, so instead he cites an unknown higher authority. It's not his fault, there are forces beyond his control at work.

If John does see himself as Aeneas, a tragic hero forced by fate to make difficult decisions that hurt the people he loves, I'm sure he finds it comforting.

Poor good Aeneas, he's so sad. He still loves her, but his duty is stronger. That means he's the hero, right?

#the locked tomb #tlt meta #emperor john gaius #harrow the ninth #htn spoilers #long post #another note that we don't know enough to know if it's relevent but I will be keeping an EYE on #Dido had a sister who built her funeral pyre #then in discovering too late what Dido meant it for lamented that it should not be for both of them #'one sword has serv'd us both - one common tomb' #that sister's name was Anna

[hyperesthesias]

E V O L U T I O N

a playlist for viktor and the machine herald.

my body is a cage. // augmentation. // terrible lie [extended remix]. // given up. // blasphemous rumours. // another version of the truth. // saturn. // dido's lament.

#if dido's lament was too depressing to end on just tack on mr roboto by styx and have a laugh on me #viktor arcane #viktor the machine herald #machine herald #viktor #netflix arcane #arcane #viktor playlist #arcane playlist #machine herald viktor #league of legends #glorious evolution #also i apologize again for the youtube format #i still dont have a spotify #also also #fun little fact: dido's lament is typically sung by a soprano. the opera was written for a girls' school in the 17th century #the version i found is sung by a countertenor which is fairly rare. that means he sings in the alto range #which is typically sung by a woman. it takes a lot of practice and dedication. i was pleasantly surprised to find such an unusual version #plus i liked the birds in the background #also also also #augmentation was a little on the nose but i couldn't pass it up lmao

[snowychicken]

People in my music class are like "I've never heard of people using music to talk about suicide before" like dude wait until you hear about Mothica

#like i had to write a discussion board post about how 'didos last lament' discusses the topic of suicide #and all i can think of is 'forever fifteen' #mothica #snowys talking again

[devis-nonsense-n-shitposting]

Lament

Woe

Sorrow

The Ides have passed, and now I weep

For now I wait, until next year

To once again Stab Julius Caeser

#devi thoughts #ides of march #julius caesar #ancient rome #i lament #this is so sad #play Dido's Lament

[enbysiriusblack]

marauders favourite music artists:

sirius- queen

mary- elton john

lily- abba

james- fleetwood mac

marlene- the runaways

peter- the cure

remus- david bowie

dorcas- prince

regulus- henry purcell

#sirius has a crush on bowie and remus has a crush on freddie and roger but song wise its flipped #regulus only listens to classical and is obsessed with sail upon a dogstar and didos lament #lily is the worlds biggest abba stan #mary has a collection of elton john glasses. 100%. #james has a crush on every single member of fleetwood mac #marlene is me. i am her. #rip marlene mckinnon. you would've loved the 2010 film the runaways #peter is a goth. and cries to their music. #dorcas thinks prince is iconic. which he is. and marlene so learned prince songs on guitar for them #marauders era #marauders #sirius black #mary macdonald #lily evans #james potter #marlene mckinnon #peter pettigrew #remus lupin #dorcas meadowes #regulus black #marauders headcanons

[dragonowlie]

My internet is back! *holds my downstairs neighbours like a cat that knocked over a potted plant* YOU!

anyway the second I realised my internet was fully back I immediately put on castlevania nocturne and there is so much I could say about it and if I had more energy I might but tldr

BAROQUE MUSIC

#HÄNDEL? AND PURCELL? in MY animated vampire show?!!! ITS FUCKING MORE LIKELY THAN U THINK HOLY SHIT #and mozart and monteverdi. i guess. also vivaldi. #im not an opera gal so most of this is me going ''i see i understand! <- does not understand'' but i do think it INCREDIBLY fun that one of #the main characters is singing slightly older music (händel n purcell) to contemporary music (mozart)(!) #like. Holy Shit My Dudes. this is enrichment for me in a place i didn't expect it! at all! #like do i expect mozart in my shows? no. is it surprising that hes there? also no. likewise do i expect vivaldi and his four seasons in #my shows? no. is it surprising to hear? Also No! #but something like Dido's Lament (which ive played and performed with a soprano) showing up when im not expecting it has me like !!!!!!!!! #dragonowlie's random texts #also. i am mentioning mozart here because he's famous and his works are prominent in nocturne but he is not baroque. #just in case my post made it seem that way. lmao. anyway goodnightttttttt

[revolant]

Oh just thought of the fucking sickest tattoo maybe I finally need to email the new artist I’ve had my eye on

#surrealist dido’s lament side piece…..