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Four Drunken Maidens
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These was a keen unpublished text message from a great MS backup, c 1740-fifty, about Federal Collection out-of Scotland, NLS MS 6299. Regardless of if slightly faulty, I wouldn’t resist this new striking last verse of this type, and therefore illustrates just how later versions was changed.
An excellent. L. From his cards it would appear that the guy first got it club vocalists, possibly collated that have a great chapbook around 1760, Charming Phyllis’s Garland . He does not say were the guy got his track, that’s vaguely much like the you to definitely right here. Lloyd’s type has many minor spoken differences, however, his past verse is much additional and that i append it adopting the main text.
The fresh song has already become penned throughout the Northumberland Vickers’ manuscript out-of c 1770-5, because of the Matt Seattle in the Higher North Tune Guide , #527, 1987, however, I take advantage of a new backup and that changes quite from inside the timing inside the the past 1 / 2 of the two middle measures of every strain. It will be the last pay attention a manuscript line of track and dance sounds, Folger Shakespeare Collection MS V.b. 410, that’s, in my quote, of imperativ hyperlink about 1760-dos. The 2 most recent music involved is old c 1760 inside BUCEM, Arne’s “Jessy” about Seller regarding Venice , and James Oswald’s “New housemaid which is created for like and me.” The first backup of the track, that I have maybe not viewed, is in Publication cuatro regarding Walsh’s Caledonian Nation Dances , c 1744.
The latest Five Drunken Maidens
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