Bonnie House of Airly (The)

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Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Strathspey
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Nathaniel Gow
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 14
Year of publication/Date of MS	1822
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BONNIE HOUSE OF AIRLY, THE. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Old," states Nathaniel Gow, who also says "The first eight bars are supposed the original." He refers to a ballad called "The Bonnie House of Airly" (see George Ritchie Kinloch, Ancient Scottish Ballads, 1827, pg. 100) which tells of the Earl of Airly and his son, clan Ogilvie, who sided with the Royalist forces of Charles I in the English Civil War. Arily's estates were plundered in 1639 or 1640 by the Earl of Argyle as consequence. Francis James Child finds the ballad earliest in Finlay's Scottish Ballads.

Printed source: Gow (Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1822; p. 14.

X:1
T:Bonnie House of Airly, The
M:C
L:1/8
R:Strathspey
N:"Old"
N:"The first eight bars are supposed the original." 
B:Gow - Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1822)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
G2 AB c2 d>c|(B<G) AB c3c|(B2d2) g3=f|e2c2 z2 (c2|B2)d2 g3e|
(=fd) (ec) f2 (eg)|d2 B>G c2 d>B|A2G2 z4||g2 AB c2 c>B|A>G AB G2 d>B|
G2 AB c2 cd|e2d2z2c2|"tr"B>A(Bc) d2 d>d|(efg).B A2 d>B|~G2 AB (c<e) d>B|"tr"A4 G4||