Dido sings the aria before submitting suicide. Her singing is assisted by an over and over descending bass line that is representative of death, following a cadence that is like a burial service walk. The Opera in this madrigal creates a quite string emotional influence. The texture of music is based on Polyphony. This is a specific type of music texture in which there are various voices in melody. In the beginning, there is one voice, however, later, there is another voice that overlaps the song. In this particular madrigal, there is Polyphony at various points as follows; She spied (From 00:16 to 00:19) A maiden Queen the same ascending (From 00:20 to 00:40) To whom Dianas Darlings (From 00:59 to 01:04) Came running down amain (From 01:05 to 01:25) Mingling with the shepherds of her train (from 01:52 to 02:00). The musical texture in this madrigal also includes the use of Painting. Painting is defined as pictorializing of words in musical form the written text as an expression of device or as an expressive device. Following are the examples of painting in this madrigal; Descending (For example, descending melodic contour at 00:08) Ascending (For example, ascending melodic contour at 00:23) Running down (For example, running quavers at 01:05) Two by two (For example, two voices at 01:25) Three by three (For example, three voices at 01:29) All alone (For example, solo soprano voice at 01:43) Long (For example, basses in augmentation 02:30). (503)