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- Instance of
- nursery rhyme, bagatelle, musical work/composition
- Inception
- 18th century
- Publication date
- 1772
- Composer
- James Hook, Samuel Arnold
- Performer
- Olive Kline
- copyright status
- public domain, public domain, public domain
- country of origin
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- described by source
- The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Infant Inſtitutes
- form of creative work
- song
- has characteristic
- traditional folk song
- has edition or translation
- Hey! diddle, diddle
- illustrator
- Thomas Bewick
- language of work or name
- English
- published in
- Mother Goose’s Melody, Christmas Box, Juvenile Amuſement, Blackwood's Magazine
- quotation or excerpt
- Hey diddle diddle, / The cat and the fiddle, / The cow jumped over the moon ; / The little dog laughed / To see such sport, / And the dish ran away with the spoon., High diddle, diddle, / The Cat and the Fiddle, / The cow jump’d over the Moon ; / The little Dog laugh’d / To ſee ſuch Craft, / And the Diſh ran away with the Spoon., Hey diddle, diddle, a cat and a fiddle, / The goats jump’d over the moon ; / And the little dogs bark’d to see such sport, / And the cat ran away with the spoon.
- tempo marking
- allegro
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