Title Her Absence Will Not Alter Me (t) 
Short Title Edinburgh MM-2, 1793 
Page 356-358 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //321/1+6//5321/6-5-6-//1234/561+1//6-12/1 
First Line Though distant far from Jessy's charms (fl) 
Burden Text Her absence will not alter me (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  31561561 
Intervals  -2,-2,8,-3,-2,-3,-2,-2,-3,-2,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,3,-8,-3,3,2,-2, 
Key Signature Bb 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1793 
Number E3.153 
Return to Database Home Page
Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
© 2002 Colonial Music Institute