Title Air 16, Act I (t) 
Short Title Beggar's Opera, 1728 
Page T17M5 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //1232/1232//16-/6-5-//1232/1231 
Indicated Tune Over the Hills and Far Away (it) 
First Line Where I laid on Greenland's coast (fl) 
Stress Notes  111611 
Intervals  2,2,-2,-2,2,2,-2,-2,-3,-2,4,2,2,-2,-2,2,2,-3, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb 
Time Signature
Do Bb 
Date 1728 
Number R32.16 
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