Annotation:Garland of Love (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GARLAND OF LOVE, THE. English, Air or Waltz. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A pretty 19th century air that can be used as a waltz, although the second part is a bit irregular, having 18 bars instead of the usual 16, as in the first part. It appears in several songsters of the period, such as Parlour Songster (c. 1856, p. 158). c.f. Roud #1247. Words begin:
How sweet are the flowers that grow by yon fountain
Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner].
Printed sources: Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 88.
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