Melody
The most widely used tune today is as follows; slight variations in the dotted quarter notes are not uncommon:
A slightly different tune used to be more common in Germany and still prevails in Western Austria and the German speaking part of Switzerland:
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Note that in the ambitus is only a fourth in the latter but a Minor seventh in the former Variation.
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