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Thread #77892   Message #1394748
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Jan-05 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Are hymns also folk music hmmmmm?
Subject: RE: Are hymns also folk music hmmmmm?
I think that was probably an original tune by Holst, called Thaxted because that was where he lived. Though of course it might have been around a few times already.

Any good tune is likely to turn up all over the place, and not necessarily because of copying - there is only a limited number of notes after all.   A really totally original tune probably won't be much cop as a tune.