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Thread #169855 Message #4107138
Posted By: Jack Campin
23-May-21 - 05:14 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Trad. English tune for Little Musgrave?
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Trad. English tune for Little Musgrave?
This is the kind of ballad sheet Chappell was refwrencing. "To an Excellent New Tune"... which isn't there.
There is a reason why this made sense. Ballad sheets were sold by hawkers who sang the ballad in the street to advertise it. There was no need for either them or their buyers to pay much attention to any notation printed on the sheet - Simpson's book lists hundreds of instances when it was gibberish.