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General Information
Work Title
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Araby's Daughter
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Alternative. Title
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(The Old Oaken Bucket)
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Composer
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Kiallmark, George
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IGK 3
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Key
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B-flat major
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Text Incipit
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter
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First Publication.
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1822
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Librettist
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Thomas Moore, from Lalla Rookh (1817)
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Language
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English
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Classical
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Piece Style
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Classical
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Instrumentation
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voice, piano
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Navigation etc.
The melody of this song became famous under its later guise as a setting of Samuel Woodworth's 1817 poem "The Old Oaken Bucket". That arrangement probably first appeared in The Amateur's Song Book, 1843, p.157. (Also in White's Boston Melodeon, 1846, p.80)