Annotation:Bonnie Christy
X:1 T:Bonny Christy M:C L:1/8 B:Alexander Stuart – “Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection, part 1st” B:(Edinburgh, c. 1724, pp. 2-3) F: https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/2942 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 f2|cAGF CDFG|A2 GF F2 B_A|G2 FE _e3f|g2 (GA) G2f2| cAGF CDFG|A2 GF F3A|GFGA f3g|a2 (cd) c2 BA| G2A2f3g|(ag)(fd) (fd)(cA)|G2 F_E _e3f|g2 (GA) G2 FG| A2 GA B2 AB|c2 (de) f2 (ed)|cdcA GABc|A2 (GF) F2|| V:2 clef = bass z2|F,,2C,2A,,2F,,2|C,2C,,2F,,2z2|_E,2B,2G,2F,2|_E,2B,2E,,2z2| F,2C2A,2F,2|C2C,2 F,G,A,F,|C2B,2A,2G,2|F,2C,2F,,2 z2| C,2F,2A,2G,2|F,2B,2A,2F,2|_E,2B,2G,2F,2|_E,2B,,2_E,,2z2| F,2C,2G,2F,2|A,2B,2A,2G,2|A,2F,2B,2G,2|C2C,2F,2||
BONNIE CHRISTY. AKA - "Bonny Christy." Scottish, Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (plus variations in McGibbon). The air was printed in Edinburgh in Alexander Stuart's Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection, part 1st (c. 1720), in London by Daniel Wright in his Aria di Camera (1727), and also early appears in Munro's Scots Tunes, 1732.
