Annotation:He's Bonny: Difference between revisions
(Created page with "[[{{BASEPAGENAME}}|Tune properties and standard notation]] ---- <p><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"> '''HE'S BONNY'''. AKA - "He's Bonny. He's o'er the hill this night that ...") |
*>Move page script m (moved Talk:He's Bonny to Annotation:He's Bonny) |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 09:15, 1 April 2012
Tune properties and standard notation
HE'S BONNY. AKA - "He's Bonny. He's o'er the hill this night that I loe weel for a' that." Scottish, Slow Air. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. A note in the Gows' Fifth Collection (1809) reads: "This Tune is Supposed to have been Composed about the year 1745." Under the title "He's ower the hill that I know well," the melody is a staple of pipe bands.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 542. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1809; p. 15. The Piper's Assistant (1877).
Recorded sources: