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Marrow Bones: English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Manuscripts


Cupid's Trepan: the original tune

   
Cupid's Trepan: staff notation and link to midi rendition

The tune here was printed in Mottley and Cooke's Penelope, 1728, Air 12, and is as transcribed in Claude M Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1966, 151-153; where detailed notes on the tune and the various songs associated with it can also be found.

Left-click on the notation for a midi rendition.