Mudcat Café message #3855678

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Thread #161744 Message #3855678
Posted By: GUEST,Dave Hunt
18-May-17 - 07:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?
Subject: RE: Origins: Sweet Nightingale... tune from an opera?

Now I heard...many years ago and I've forgotten who told me, that the tune use today was originally the horn obligato in a ballad opera (Thomas Arne's 'Thomas and Sally perhaps?)