Come Let Us Prepare

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Theme code Index	137L2 1335
Also known as	Free Masons (2)
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:William Chappell
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Popular Music of the Olden Times vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	pp. 105-106
Year of publication/Date of MS	1859
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COME LET US PREPARE. AKA - "Come let us prepare, we brothers that are." AKA and see "Free Masons (2)." English, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune appears in Watts's Musical Miscellany (1731, iii. 72), British Melody (1739), The Dancing Master (vol. iii.), and several ballad operas including The Village Opera, The Beggar's Wedding (1729), and The Devil to Pay (1731), among others. The tune was used as the vehicle for several songs and appears in other versions and titles, including "The Enter'd Appretice's Song" in The Musical Mason, and "Ye Commons and Peers" in A Complete Collection of Old and New English and Scotch Songs (1735).

Printed source: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; pp. 105-106.

X:1
T:Come Let Us Prepare
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Chappell - Popular Music of the Olden Time
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
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