Annotation:Lira Lira La

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LIRA LIRA LA. English, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song appears in George Coleman's opera The Surrender of Calais (London, 1792), music by Samuel Arnold. The melody also appears in several late 18th/early 19th century publications, such as James Aird's Selection, vol. 4 (Glasgow, 1796), Thomas Preston's Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife (London, 1796), G. Astor's The Hoboy Preceptor, or Military Pieces (London, 1800), and Thomas Ball's The Gentleman's Amusement Book 2 (Norfolk, Va.).
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Source for notated version:

Printed sources: : Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4) 1796; No. 186, p. 70.

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