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Theme code Index	5252 661H7
Also known as	Bonny Kate (3)
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The London Magazine, Book:or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Tune and/or Page number	p. 277
Year of publication/Date of MS	1751
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Tune annotations

X:1
T:Bonny Kate of Aberdeen
M:C
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (June, 1751, p. 277)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
A<FED A<FED|B2 Bc d2 cB|A<FED A<FED|EFGA {A}G2 FE|
A<FED A<FED|fgaf e2 dc|d<fdA B<dBG|A<FED D4:|
|:e<cBA e<cBA|d2 cB c2 BA|B2 B<d c2 e<g|f<da< {f}e2 fg|
a<fed e>cBA|BcdF E2 DC|D>fdA B<dBG|A<FED D4:|

X:1
T:Bonny Kate of Aberdeen
M:C|
L:1/8
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynnian Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:D
A<FE<D A<FE<D|B2 Bc d2 cB|A<FE<D A<FE<D|E>FG>A G2 FE|
A<FE<D A<FE<D|fgaf e2 dc|dfdA BdBG|AFED D4:|
|:e<cB<A|d2 cB c2 BA|B2 Bd c2 eg|fdaf e2 fg|
afed ecBA|BcdF E2 DC|DfdA BdBG|AFED D4:||

Tune annotations

BONNIE KATE OF ABERDEEN. AKA and see "Bonny Kate (3)." English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by John Walsh in his 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).

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