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DEATH OF THE LINNET. Scottish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Robert Burns used the air for his song "But lately seen, in gladsome green." Franz Joseph Haydn set the song for voice, violin and keyboard (Hob. XXXIa:138bis).

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