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'''ON YONDER HIGH MOUNTAINS.''' English, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in '''The Cobblers' Opera''' (1729) and ''' | '''ON YONDER HIGH MOUNTAINS.''' English, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in '''The Cobblers' Opera''' (1729) and '''Sylvia or The Country Burial''' (1731). Chappell (1859) says this is a ballad tune, though the words have been lost. It may be the air to the song "Over hills and high mountains," which Chappell says was very popular. | ||
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ON YONDER HIGH MOUNTAINS. English, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in The Cobblers' Opera (1729) and Sylvia or The Country Burial (1731). Chappell (1859) says this is a ballad tune, though the words have been lost. It may be the air to the song "Over hills and high mountains," which Chappell says was very popular.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 2), 1859; p. 136.
Recorded sources: