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Thread #26320   Message #3563865
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Oct-13 - 05:18 AM
Thread Name: British Grenadiers-why is tune called Sheffield?
Subject: RE: British Grenadiers-why is tune called Sheffield?
I don't think that's common at all - in fact I can't think of any other example. Hymn tune arrangers very rarely collected their tunes.

The West Gallery collections have clumps of tunes named for villages around England, each clump surrounding the arranger's home town. But the tunes could be from anywhere. There are a few Scottish collections where the tunes are named after Edinburgh streets, but some of them came from central Europe decades or centuries before.