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Looking for music

Looking on Google for a song entitled "You've examined my heart", I found that the internet is being used in ways I never imagined:

That reminded me of the far-off days when music publishers used to sell individual copies of anthems, with their list of other anthems on the back, giving short title, composer and price. I still have a box full of these publications and pulled one out. There I find such gems as:

Behold and see Palestrina 5d.
Cheap at the price, really.

Some composers were more highly regarded than others:
Holy, holy Handel 2½d
though even the best can get stuck at times:
Fixed in his Handel 4½d

Some kind offers:
Come ye disconsolate Dudley Buck 1d
Make me a clean Barnaby 2d

but others seem more dubious:
Why do the heathen Dicks 3d
Come fancy gay F.A. Challinor 3d

But the one title I could never resist:
The Lord gave Stainer 2d.

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