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|f_annotation= | |f_annotation='''TURN AGAIN, WHITTINGTON.''' AKA and see "[[Bells of Osney (The)]]." English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in '''Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 3''' (1707, No. 40) and Hawkins' transcripts for the virginal. The title alludes to a story which, according to Chappell (1859), is of Eastern origin and concerns a poor traveller whose fortunes are reversed by the performance of his cat. A story with a similar theme can be found in Arlotto's Italian novels, around 1483, but, by the time of its English popularity, the 'poor man' was replaced by Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London and a knight's son. Chappell also notes a 'cat' was term for a certain class of trading ship, and with this meaning it is made more likely that a Lord Mayor would come into riches upon the profitable return of his investment. Several ballads on the subject were entered at Stationers' Hall in 1605, and others appear in collections of the 17th and 18th centuries. | ||
|f_printed_sources= | |f_printed_sources=Chappell ('''Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 2'''), 1859; p. 89. | ||
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TURN AGAIN, WHITTINGTON. AKA and see "Bells of Osney (The)." English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 3 (1707, No. 40) and Hawkins' transcripts for the virginal. The title alludes to a story which, according to Chappell (1859), is of Eastern origin and concerns a poor traveller whose fortunes are reversed by the performance of his cat. A story with a similar theme can be found in Arlotto's Italian novels, around 1483, but, by the time of its English popularity, the 'poor man' was replaced by Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London and a knight's son. Chappell also notes a 'cat' was term for a certain class of trading ship, and with this meaning it is made more likely that a Lord Mayor would come into riches upon the profitable return of his investment. Several ballads on the subject were entered at Stationers' Hall in 1605, and others appear in collections of the 17th and 18th centuries.
