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Text Authorship:

• by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Hark the ech'ing air!", 1960 [ voice and piano ], a realization of the Purcell song. Confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Hark! now the echoing Air", Z. 629 no. 48 (1692), published 1702, from The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, no. 48, published in Orpheus Britannicus, Vol. II [sung text checked 1 time]

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