Bonny Nell

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Theme code Index	0111 5551
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:William Chappell
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Popular Music of the Olden Time vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	p. 23
Year of publication/Date of MS	1859
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BONNY NELL. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Chappell states the tune was originally a ballad tune, though the words had been lost by his time. He found a few references to the ballad, one as early as 1622 when it was mentioned in The Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbon and was apparently a favorite with the nuns of the convent. The melody appears in Apollo's Banquet for the Treble Violin (1670).

Printed source: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 23.

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