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The Female Saylor
Found in 2014-12-18SPUDsRegular.abc
from the SPUDS abc collection
X: 372 T:The Female Saylor C:Marin Marais M:6/8 K:Gm Z:AW |:"Gm"G2dd2c|B3c3|d2cB2A|"D7"B2AG2^F| "Gm"G2dd2c|"Cm"B3c3|"D7"d2cB2A|"Gm"G6:| |:"Gm"b2ag2^f|g3d3|"Eb"b2ag2^f|g3d2=f| "Cm"e2c"D"d2A|"Gm"B2GB2c|1"D7"d3=e2^f|g3a3:|2"D7"d3A2[BG]|"Gm"G6|] W:The tune "Female Saylor" was composed as "Marche pour les Matelots" W:(March for the Sailors) by Marin Marais for his opera Alcione (1706), W:and quickly became a popular dance tune. The words to the carol W:"Masters in This Hall", set to this tune, were written much later, W:around 1860, by William Morris.
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