Positive Psychology: Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Handel) Lucy Crowe

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Handel) Lucy Crowe

Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Handel) Lucy Crowe

Gentle Morpheus, son of night from Alceste, HWV 45 

by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Incidental music to a lost play by Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 

Music texts probably by Thomas Morell (1703–1784)

It was rehearsed at Convent Garden Theatre, but never performed. 

Lucy Crowe, soprano

Early Opera Company 

Christian Curnyn, conductor

Gentle Morpheus, son of night, 

Hither speed thy airy flight! 

And his weary senses steep 

In the balmy dew of sleep. 

That when bright Aurora’s beams 

Glad the world with golden streams, 

He, like Phoebus, blithe and gay, 

May re-taste the healthful day.

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Art in the video:

[0:48] René-Antoine Houasse (1645–1710)

[1:50] Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833)

[2:46] Giulio Carpioni (1613-1678)

[3:20] Battista Dossi (1490–1548)

[3:42] Guercino (1591-1666)

[4:50] Jean-Bernard Restout (1732-1797)

[5:27] Luca Giordano (1634-1705)

[6:15] Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919)

[6:45] Auguste Alexandre Hirsch (1833–1912)

[7:08] Nicolas-Guy Brenet (1728-1792)

[7:44] Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)

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Song

IV. Courante (Second)

Artist

Tilman Hoppstock

Album

Baroque Suites for Guitar

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Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."