Title Song (t) 
Short Title American Periodicals 
Page  
Genre  AI 
Country 
Instruments  VO,KB 
Incipit  //55/51//66/61+//543/432 
First Line Heavy hours are almost past, The (fl) 
Verses
Stress Notes  556654 
Intervals  -5,6,3,-4,-2,-2,2,-2,-2, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb,Ab 
Time Signature
Do Eb 
Location Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Facs APS 30:86 
Nota Bene In Univ. Asylum & Col. Mag., June 1791, pp.414-16 
Number H16.72 
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Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
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