Bonnie Banks of Ayr (The)

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Theme code Index	4255 1H3H1H1H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Robert Burns
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Keith Norman MacDonald
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Gesto Collection of Highland Music (The)
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS	1895
Artist
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Year recorded
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BONNIE BANKS OF AYR. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. MacDonald notes: "(Scots poet) Robert Burns composed this beautiful air after dining with a few friends the day before his intended voyage to the West Indies. His heart having been always in the Highlands, I have much pleasure in placing this to his memory." MacDonald gives no further information regarding the attribution to Robert Burns.

Printed sources: Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 14. MacDonald (The Gesto Collection).

X:1
T:Bonnie Banks of Ayr, The
C:Robert Burns
B:The Gesto Collection
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:C
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