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Maḣpiya kiŋ eciyataŋ

Author or Translator: William T. Selwyn

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Text Information

First Line: Maḣpiya kiŋ eciyataŋ
Author or Translator: William T. Selwyn
Language: Dakota
Publication Date: 1951
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1951.

Tune

CHRISTMAS (Handel)

The tune is based on the the beginning of the soprano aria "Non vi piacque ingiusti dei" from the opera "Siroe"

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MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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