The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161744   Message #3846218
Posted By: Jack Campin
22-Mar-17 - 09:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?
Subject: RE: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?
This is Arne's tune (the "German flute" transposition; original vocal version is one fret up). I don't recognize it as related to the usual "Nightingale" tune and I don't like it much.

X:1
T:A Dialogue
M:3/8
L:1/8
Q:1/8=120
K:D
A   |d2 F/D/|A2 F| BEF|G2\
F   |d>cB   |cF^A| B2F|d2\
c   |B>cA   |BE^G| A2z|z2
A   |dA=c   |B2 B| eBd|c2\
A/A/|d>ef   |edc |Hd2z|z2|]


(From the IMSLP scan, page 7).