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Low Flute Choir SKU: AY.FC523 Composed by Henry Purcell. Arranged by Cathi Marro. Woodwinds - Flute. Alry Publications #FC523. Published by Alry Publications (AY.FC523). ISBN 9790302119029.When I am Laid in Earth, Dido's Lament from "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell, arranged for Low Flute Choir by Cathi Marro. The work is built on a ‘ground’ (or ‘ground bass’), which is phrase in the bass part that is repeated throughout the work. Familiar to most music school students, it is included in many classical music textbooks as a superior example of this compositional technique.