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Thread #126841   Message #2822240
Posted By: MGM·Lion
26-Jan-10 - 09:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Ballad of Chevy Chase
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ballad of Chevy chase
Re DT entry - it gives 4 different tunes. Out of interest, two were later used as setting for songs in John Gay's ballad opera The Beggar's Opera {1729}

— for the first {Air xii, Act I sc 10} the text gives as title heading "O ponder well, ye parents dear"", another song popular in early C18 set to DT's Chevy Chas tune 1;

the second {Air lxi part of long sequence in Act III sc 13} is actually headed "Chevy Chase", using DT's tune 2.