My vote is on "tun'd" ... the way Deller sings it :-) "The pow'r of harmony too well they know: he long e'er this had tun'd the jarring spheres" Yes, it clearly says "turn'd" in the music shown in the video, and is thus sung. But surely the power of harmony will TUNE the jarring (discordant) spheres, not TURN them. "Turn'd" is meaningless - this has to be a typesetter's mistake. I admit it's not entirely clear to me how tuning the spheres would get rid of Hell, but it's a more pleasing concept than the image of Harmony turning the spheres and leaving no Hell below, which would mean that Hell is now on top, oh dear.
Actually, it's "tun'd" in the most commonly available music edition (the one I sing this piece from) whereas the Urtext you show here says "turn'd" - so it IS rather interesting. (There's a famous misprint in the Barenreiter Pergolesi Stabat Mater which many singers with inadequate Latin are recorded singing, too...)
Very nice!
chris
My vote is on "tun'd" ... the way Deller sings it :-)
"The pow'r of harmony too well they know:
he long e'er this had tun'd the jarring spheres"
Yes, it clearly says "turn'd" in the music shown in the video, and is thus sung. But surely the power of harmony will TUNE the jarring (discordant) spheres, not TURN them. "Turn'd" is meaningless - this has to be a typesetter's mistake. I admit it's not entirely clear to me how tuning the spheres would get rid of Hell, but it's a more pleasing concept than the image of Harmony turning the spheres and leaving no Hell below, which would mean that Hell is now on top, oh dear.
Actually, it's "tun'd" in the most commonly available music edition (the one I sing this piece from) whereas the Urtext you show here says "turn'd" - so it IS rather interesting. (There's a famous misprint in the Barenreiter Pergolesi Stabat Mater which many singers with inadequate Latin are recorded singing, too...)
there is real anguish in "alas, alas too soon retired"... as there should be :-(
Not interesting; only a typo. Fixed.
"turn'd", not "tun'd" - interesting...