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Thread #4934   Message #27654
Posted By: Bruce O.
07-May-98 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: Folksongs in Opera and Theater
Subject: RE: Folksongs in Opera and Theater
"I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls" is from M. W. Balfe (music) & Alfred Bunn's (lyrics) opera of 'The Bohemian Girl', 1843.
"Tis the last rose of summer", is Thomas Moore's song to a tune he called "The Groves of Blarney", 'Sel'n of Irish Melodies', #5, 1813, an altered version of "Castle Hyde" (in my Irish tune index).
For a tune not noted by Fiske, noted above, see "Pretty Peggy of Derby, O" on my website. There's even a traditional version (U. of Virginia, Alderman Lib., unpublished) of Colman's "Brandy, O/ Landlady of France"