Title Air 31 (t) 
Short Title Beggar's Opera, 1777 
Page 72 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //1+76/5675//66-7//1+76/5675 
Indicated Tune Of a Noble Race Was Shenkin (it) 
First Line Is then his fate decreed, Sir (fl) 
Stress Notes  15615 
Intervals  -2,-2,-2,2,2,-3,2,-8,9,2,-2,-2,-2,2,2,-3, 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1777 
Number M7.32 
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