Excerpt from Old English Popular Music, Vol. 2 The Lover's Opera, 1729. The Bays' Opera, 1730. Robin Hood, 1730. I cannot conclude my remarks upon the present edition without a word of regret for the exclusion of the tunes which rest upon no better authority than tradition. Many of these tunes, given in the work of 185 5, have deservedly become established favourites with the public, and I am quite prepared to find their absence deplored by not a few of my readers. But I must urge that in coming to a decision upon them ...
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Excerpt from Old English Popular Music, Vol. 2 The Lover's Opera, 1729. The Bays' Opera, 1730. Robin Hood, 1730. I cannot conclude my remarks upon the present edition without a word of regret for the exclusion of the tunes which rest upon no better authority than tradition. Many of these tunes, given in the work of 185 5, have deservedly become established favourites with the public, and I am quite prepared to find their absence deplored by not a few of my readers. But I must urge that in coming to a decision upon them the question of their intrinsic merit was not for me to consider. I could only have regard to the plain rule that a tune which rests upon oral tradition alone has no proper place in a work based in principle upon documentary evidence. Our author, it is true, took a different View of the possibilities of the case but at the time when his editions were published so little had as yet been done to rescue any of the Old popular music from oblivion that he must be held fully justified in deciding as he did. The Fashionable Lady, 17 30. The Jovial Crew, 1731. Silvia, 1731. The Grub Street Opera, 1731. Humours of the Court, 1732. The Stage Mutineers, 1733. Achilles, 1733. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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