Title Roast Beef Cantata, The. Air 5 (t) 
Short Title SS, Harvard 
Page 1-4 
Genre  SS 
Country 
Instruments  VO,KBF 
Incipit  //121/7-12//321/27-//121/7-17- 
First Line As once on a time, A young frog, pert and... (fl) 
First Line-Recitative But see, my muse to England takes her flight (fl-r) 
Burden Text O the roast beef of old England, &c. (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  173217 
Intervals  2,-2,-2,2,2,2,-2,-2,2,-3,2,2,-2,-2,2,-2, 
Key Signature FU#,C# 
Time Signature 6/4 
Do
Number B29.964.5 
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