30 Farewell, Nancy

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Tune Analysis: E Aeolian, Heptatonic, Authentic. There is only one C (6th) which is natural. If it were sharpened the key would be E Dorian. If it were omitted we would have a Dorian/Aeolian Hexatonic scale.

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Cecil Sharp's Note 30 (1916)

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X:30 T:30 Farewell Nancy C:Collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp L:1/8 M:3/4 I:linebreak $ K:G (E>F) | G3 A BA | G2 A2 (dc) | B2 E2 (FE) | D2 E2 (EF) | G3 A (BA) |$ G2 (AG) (FE) | D2 G2 A2 | w: Fare- *|well my dear- est|Nan- cy, since *|I must now *|leave you Un- *|to the salt *|seas I * am *|bound for to| B4 B2 | e2 d2 e2 | (BA) G2 (Ad) | B2 (EG) (FE) |$ D2 E2 (EF) | G2 A2 B2 | e2 d2 e2 | w: go; But|let my long|ab- * sence be *|no trou- * ble *|to you For *|I shall re-|turn in the| (BA) G2 (FE) | E4 |] w: spring * a you *|know.|