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Thread #161744 Message #3846164
Posted By: Jack Campin
22-Mar-17 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?
Subject: RE: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?
The phrase was probably "ballad opera" - Polly, The Beggar's Opera, The Highland Fair, Love in a Village, Rosina etc.
There aren't any from the 17th century, though. The genre got going in the 1730s.