Annotation:Shady Bowers

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X:1 T:Shady Bow'rs, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1740, p. 83) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A2 |dede f2d2|edcB A2d2|G2 FG E2A2|F2 EF D2A2|d3(c2B2)| c2 ^G2A2d2|B4 B3A|A6:||:A2|B2 AB G2B2|c2 Bc A2c2| d2 cd B2g2|e4 z2A2|B4 c4|dede f2 ed|A4 c4|d6:|]

SHADY BOWERS. Scottish, English; Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in London dancing master Daniel Wright's Wright's Compleat Collection (London, 1740), and Scottish musician and dancing master David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740), "

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See a standard notation transcription of the melody from David Young's MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740) [1]