Title O Dear What Can the Matter Be (t) 
Short Title Gent's Amus, 1794 
Page 28-29 
Genre  AI 
Country 
Instruments  2GF/2VN/2VO 
Incipit  //5/5//531+/531//4/4//4 
First Line O dear what can the matter be (fl)(bt) 
Burden Text O dear what can the matter be (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  5555444 
Intervals  -3,6,-4,-3,-3,4, 
Key Signature FU# 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do
Date 1794 
Number J16.26 
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