Annotation:Bonny Kate of Aberdeen

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BONNIE KATE OF ABERDEEN. AKA and see "Bonny Kate (3)." English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance instructions were originally published in R. Baldwin's periodical The London Magazine; or The Monthly Intelligencer of June, 1751. It next appears in John Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, vol. 5 (London, 1754), and later by Charles and Samuel Thompson in their Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773). "Bonny Kate of Aberdeen" can also be found in the music manuscript collections of London musician Thomas Hammersley (1790), and fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn., 1780).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 85.

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