Title Roast Beef Cantata, The. Air 4 (t) 
Short Title SS, Harvard 
Page 1-4 
Genre  SS 
Country 
Instruments  VO,KBF+GF/GT 
Incipit  //13/56//5321/11+5//61+2+/3+2+1+//6 
First Line How hard, o sawney is thy lot (fl) 
First Line-Recitative Upon the ground, hard by, poor Sawney sate (fl-r) 
Burden Text O the beef! The bonny bonny beef, &c. (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  1551636 
Intervals  3,3,2,-2,-3,-2,-2,8,-4,2,3,2,2,-2,-2,-3, 
Key Signature FU#,C#,GU#,D# 
Time Signature
Do
Number B29.964.4 
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