Title Air 18, Act I (t) 
Short Title Beggar's Opera, 1728 
Page T18M5 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //13/56//5323/11+5//61+2+ 
Indicated Tune O the Broom (it) 
First Line Miser thus a shilling sees, The (fl) 
Stress Notes  15516 
Intervals  3,3,2,-2,-3,-2,2,-3,8,-4,2,3,2, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb,Ab 
Time Signature
Do Eb 
Date 1728 
Number R32.18 
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Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
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