Title Air 8 (t) 
Short Title Beggar's Opera, 1765 
Page 30 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //656//1+76//73//1+73+//1+76 
Indicated Tune Grim King of the Ghosts (it) 
First Line Can love be controlled by advice (fl) 
Stress Notes  61711 
Intervals  -2,2,3,-2,-2,2,-5,6,-2,4,-3,-2,-2, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb 
Time Signature 3/4 
Do Bb 
Date 1765 
Number R58.9 
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