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Murray MacLeod	Origins: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera? (31)	Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?	22 Mar 17
If you watch the first minute of this video, you will hear the woman introducing the choral performance say that the song "Sweet Nightingale" started off in a 17th century opera. The sound is very unclear on the video and I cannot make out the word she says before "opera" ...sounds like "valid" but obviously that makes no sense. Maybe someone else can decipher it. Point is, did this song in fact start out in an opera, and then enter the folk tradition, as this woman claims? I have always been under the impression that it was as genuine an "Anon" folk song as it was possible to get. Maybe some of our Cornish members can either confirm or debunk ... the song is reputed to be of Cornish origin, after all.

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