Bonnie Doon

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Also known as	Bonny Doon, Caledonian Hunt's Delight (The), Ye Banks and Braes
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Jig/Quadrille, Waltz/Valse/Vals
Key/Tonic of	C
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Elias Howe
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BONNIE DOON. AKA and see "Ye Banks and Braes." Scottish, Jig. G Major (Kerr, Sweet): C Major (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A waltz setting is in Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1, pg. 25. A favorite air of the first decades of the 19th century, judging by the number of times it appears in period music manuscripts in Britain and North America. Under the "Bonny/Bonnie Doon" title it was published in Philadelphia in 1823 in G.E. Blake's Gentleman's Amusement No. 2. The title is from poet Robert Burns' song "Ye banks and braes o' bonny doon," printed in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, although John Glen finds the precursor melody to be "The Caledonian Hunt's Delight", printed by the Gows in 1788.

Printed sources: Howe (Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon), 1843; p. 8. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 4; No. 259, p. 28. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964; p. 25.

X:1
T:Bonny Doon
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Howe - Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:C
G  | c2c d2d | ege dcd | edc cAG | GAc d2 e/d/ | c2c d2d | ege dcd | 
edc cAG | GAB c2 :: e/f/ | g2a gec | g2a gec | gec gec | 
age d2 e/d/ | c2c d2d | ege dcd | edc cAG | GAB c2 :||