Bid your faithful Ariel fly (Thomas Arne)

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• (Posted 2023-05-30)  CPDL #73949: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-05-30).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 917 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original orchestral accompaniment (with parts); a version for keyboard reduction is also available.

• (Posted 2023-05-30)  CPDL #73948: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-05-30).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 229 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes a reduced keyboard accompaniment

General Information

Title: Bid your faithful Ariel fly
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: English
Instruments: Strings

First published: 1777
Description: "The new air in the Tempest, sung by Mrs Farrell in the character of Ariel". The text was commonly inserted into Shakepeare's play in productions from the mid-1770s, and is perhaps by David Garrick or by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Original text and translations

English text

Bid your faithful Ariel fly
To the farthest Indian sky;
And then, at thy afresh command,
I'll traverse o'er the silver sand.
I'll climb the mountains, plunge the deep;
For I, like mortals, never sleep.
I'll do your task, whate'er it be,
Not with ill-will but merry glee.