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Thomas Augustine Arne , 1710-78, English composer. Arne composed the song Rule, Britannia, based on an ode by James Thomson. He composed new music for an adaptation of Milton's masque Comus (1738) and for some of the songs in Shakespeare's plays. He also wrote operas, oratorios, including Judith (1761), instrumental music, and incidental music for plays.

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Arne, Thomas Augustine (1710–78), English composer, the leading musical figure of the London theatre in the mid-18th cent., producing operas, masques, and much incidental music for plays. The masque of Alfred (1740) added ‘Rule Britannia’ to the canon of English song; and his music for seven of Shakespeare's plays included some of the most famous of all English Shakespeare settings (‘Where the bee sucks’, ‘When daisies pied’, ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun’, and many others). For the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1769 he collaborated with Garrick in an ‘Ode upon Dedicating a Building to Shakespeare’.

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