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Thread #33719 Message #2052948
Posted By: Jack Campin
15-May-07 - 07:59 PM
Thread Name: Help: ship sisters?sealion woman?
Subject: RE: Help: ship sisters?sealion woman?
While we're on "Shilo", anybody recognize this?
From a Scottish manuscript of 1702 (James Thomson, for the recorder).
Sounds ballad-like to me.
There is much more ornamentation in the original.
X:5
T:My Daughter Shilo
S:NLS MS.2833
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=80
K:Gdor
Ac|d2 d2 cA |f2 e2 d2 |(cd) (cA) GA | F3 G A2 |
d2 (fd) (cA)|f3 g a2 | F3 G (A/G/F)|~G4
Ac|d2 d2 c>A|f2 f2 ef | g2 g2 fg | a2 (ba)(gf)|
d2 (fd) (cA)|fg g2 (f/g/a)| F3 G (A/G/F)|~G4 |]