The Final Sentence out of nowhere

Wed, 05/25/2022 - 23:58 — Haruo

I just got done putting the titles and first lines of all the songs in the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols into the database. As an experiment, I created a tune authority for the second item in the Appendix of additional tunes, This is a Dublin alternative to the SUSSEX CAROL normally found with that text, "On Christmas night all Christians sing". All went well except that out of nowhere an unrelated text popped in out of nowhere, "The Final Sentence". Where did this come from and how can it be got rid of? It is nowhere in OBC1928. This is a brand-new one-instance-only tune authority. And when I click on the unwanted link, it goes nowhere.

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Thu, 05/26/2022 - 09:49 — dianneshapiro

The Final Sentence

This is because your text is unconnected to the database with the authority id "_" "The Final Sentence" is either an unconnected text somewhere in our database, or it was formerly an unconnected text that had a title and full text before it got connected, so now it is the stand in for texts with authority ids of "_"

The Appendix in Oxford Book of Carols is only tune names, there are no texts, so just delete the texts in your index. It is possible to have a tune without a text. The tune name would be ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT. The incipit starts with 51232, so change the tune authority to "on_christmas_night_51232"

Sun, 05/29/2022 - 03:35 — Haruo