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Thread #48931   Message #803770
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
15-Oct-02 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
MARDAUGH   THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER   Child #270; one example only. Midi made from notation in Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs, vol.II, 1881, "arranged from the way it was sung in Buchan". As is common with Christie, the second strain may be editorial. I have omitted the gracenotes for the sake of clarity, but have provided the full notation in abc format in this thread: Tune Req: The Earl of Mar's Daughter.

I'm having a ghastly time trying to fit The Bonny Keel Laddie (see above) to the pipe-tune notation. Bruce and Stokoe didn't attempt it, and neither did A.L. Lloyd when he printed a (simplified!) form of the tune in Come All Ye Bold Miners. I think I may just let people take their own chances on this one.