Emma B.: Where did the “happy new Year” tune or Beat originate from?
is the same one used en every country or does it vary.
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Answer by relaxin
Are you talking about “Auld Lang Syne”
read all about it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne
here you go. yeah, it varies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne
English composer William Shield seems to quote the “Auld Lang Syne” melody briefly at the end of the overture to his opera Rosina, which may be its first recorded use. The contention that Burns borrowed the melody from Shield is for various reasons highly unlikely, although they may very well both have taken it from a common source, possibly a strathspey called The Miller’s Wedding or The Miller’s Daughter. The problem is that tunes based on the same set of dance steps necessarily have a similar rhythm, and even a superficial resemblance in melodic shape may cause a very strong apparent similarity in the tune as a whole. For instance, Burns’ poem “Coming Through the Rye” is sung to a tune that might also be based on the Miller’s Wedding. The origin of the tune of God Save the Queen (q.v.) presents a very similar problem, and for just the same reason, as it is also based on a dance measure. (See the note in the William Shield article on this subject.)
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