Orpheus Paris' Montmartre) in search of his fortune and ultimately to attempt the rescue of his doomed love. The film adapts a widely known piece from Jacques Offenbach's comedic operetta "Orphée aux enfers" ("Orpheus in the Underworld"), identified with the once-popular can-can music hall dance. Offenbach's operatic work had itself parodied the classical tale of Orpheus' attempted rescue of Eurydice from Pluto (Hades). Gavin Bryars' music for Édouard Lock's full length ballet "Dido and Orfeo" (2011) reworks music from the operas "Dido and Aeneas" (Purcell) and "Orfeo ed Euridice" (Gluck) for a small ensemble of saxophone, viola, cello and piano. Orpheus
Orpheus Britannicus step, from C to D. Henry Hall, who had studied composition with Purcell under John Blow, wrote the dedicatory poems at the beginning of each volume, (1698 and 1702) and also wrote one for Blow's "Amphion Anglicus". The later 1706 London printing of "Orpheus Britannicus" by William Pearson utilized a new style of music printing to great success, where the notehead was in one piece with the background staff. John Blow's "Amphion Anglicus" (1700), a collection of Blow's songs, excerpts from odes, and chamber music, was published by subscription, after "Orpheus Britannicus"' success, and even shows a certain symmetry in