| Title |
Sailors Ballad, The (t) |
| Short Title |
SS, Harvard |
| Page |
1 |
| Genre |
SS |
| Country |
E |
| Instruments |
VO,B+FL |
| Incipit |
//6-/7-1//2/17-//16- |
| First Line |
How pleasant a sailors life passes (fl) |
| Burden Text |
Then why shou'd we quarrel for riches, &c. (bt) |
| Verses |
3 |
| Performers |
Legar, Mr. |
| Theatre Works |
Perseus & Andromeda |
| Stress Notes |
67211 |
| Intervals |
2,2,2,-2,-2,2,-3, |
| Key Signature |
Bb,EUb |
| Time Signature |
2/4 |
| Do |
Bb |
| Publisher |
Cross(p) |
| Number |
B29.984 |
Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
© 2002 Colonial Music Institute