O ponder well, be not severe, from The Beggar's Opera Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music
Poor Polly has just learnt the reason why her parents have forgiven her for marrying MacHeath: they want to persuade her to hand him over to be executed!A plea born of desperation, O Ponder Well finds Polly caught between love and duty. The music projects outward, almost rhetorically, as she begs for mercy, yet beneath the surface lies a growing emotional fracture. The harmonically unresolved close leaves her suspended—an expressive pause that prepares the deeper inward reflection that follows.This song is almost immediately followed in the play by The turtle thus with plaintive crying, also published on this site, but for different instrumentation
Details
Summary
- Instrument:
- Double Bass Flute Soprano Voice
- Ensembles:
- Small Ensemble
- Genres:
- Musicals Opera Baroque Period
- Publishers:
- Linda Fox
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 10
Detailed Description
SKU: A0.1918462
Composed by arr. Linda Fox. Arranged by Linda Fox. This edition: pdf. Baroque, Broadway, Chamber, Classical, Musical/Show, Opera. 10 pages. Linda Fox #1476263. Published by Linda Fox (A0.1918462).Poor Polly has just learnt the reason why her parents have forgiven her for marrying MacHeath: they want to persuade her to hand him over to be executed!
A plea born of desperation, O Ponder Well finds Polly caught between love and duty. The music projects outward, almost rhetorically, as she begs for mercy, yet beneath the surface lies a growing emotional fracture. The harmonically unresolved close leaves her suspended—an expressive pause that prepares the deeper inward reflection that follows.
This song is almost immediately followed in the play by The turtle thus with plaintive crying, also published on this site, but for different instrumentation.
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- Publisher:
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