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Posted By: pavane
10-Sep-10 - 06:09 AM
Thread Name: Origins: background: 'Master Kilby'
Subject: RE: Origins: background: 'Master Kilby'
From Songs of Country Life and Custom by C. J. Sharp - 1916 (As mentioned above)
Is "Master Kilby" a corruption of " Master Cupid ?" The tune seems to be the first half of a play-house or Vauxhall air based on some Irish original. Cf. the various Scottish and Irish airs in the Appendix of Moffat and Kidson's Minstrelsy of Ireland, Nos. xv to xx, pp. 340 and 341