Title How Long and Dreary Is the Night (t) 
Short Title Scots MM-2, 1788 
Page 183 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO,PF 
Incipit  //11+1+1+//1+7655//671+2+//3+61+6//53321 
Indicated Tune Galick Air, A (it) 
First Line How long and dreary is the night (fl) 
Verses
Stress Notes  11635 
Intervals  8,-2,-2,-2,2,2,2,2,2,-5,3,-3,-2,-3,-2,-2, 
Key Signature FU#,C#,GU#,D# 
Time Signature 3/4 
Do
Date 1788 
Number E32.87 
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