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Discord and Mercy

Discord!, composed by Samuel Webbe for the newly-formed London Glee Club in about 1787:  It’s first movement is based on a passage from Iliad, but the second verse, it is thought, he composed himself. Discord! Discord! Dire sister of the slaughtering power, Small at her birth, but rising every hour, While scarce the skies her […]

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