Title Way to Lengthen Life, The (t) 
Short Title SS, Harvard 
Page 1 
Genre  SS 
Country 
Instruments  2VO,B 
Incipit  //33/345//22/234//345/234 
First Line Let some great joys pretend to find (fl) 
Burden Text Since life's but a span, &c. (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  332232 
Intervals  2,2,-4,2,2,-2,2,2,-4,2,2, 
Key Signature FU# 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do
Publisher Cross(p) 
Number B29.1292 
Return to Database Home Page
Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
© 2002 Colonial Music Institute