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 DELIA, OR THE AMOROUS GODDESS. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Composed by Samuel Howard (1710-1782), a chorister of the Chapel Royal and organist at two London churches. He composed an opera, The Amorous Goddess, in 1744, in which the song "Delia" appears, beginning: "Delia, in whose form we trace..." London publisher I. Walsh published the opera in 1744. The song melody was also printed in John Simpson's Calliope, or English Harmony, vol. 2 (London, 1746), John Sadler's The Muses Delight (Liverpool, 1754), John Johnson's Compleat Tutor for the Hautboy (London, 1750) his Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (London, 1760). Simpson gives "Mr. Howard" as the composer of the tune, and indicates it is "Mr. Howard's Favorite Musette."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2). 2005; p. 29.  Recorded sources:

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