Annotation:Banks of Avon (The)

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X:1 % T:Banks of Avon, The C:Alexander Walker M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Walker - Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches etc. (1866, p. 33) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion F:http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105875477?mode=zoom K:D (d/B/)|A>F FE/D/|E/D/E/F/ B,>DB,/|A,>B,D>E|F>EE d/B/|A>F F>ED/| E/DE/F/ B,>D/B,/|D/F/d/B/ A/F/E/D/|FDD:|f/e/|D>DF>A|D/E/F/G/ A>GF/| G>BF>d|e<E E(f/e/)|d>DF>A|D/E/F/G/ AB/c/|fb/a/ g/f/e/c/| d3 f/g/|a>f g/f/e/d/|e/d/e/f/ B>d|A/F/A/B/ d>F|(E2 E>)B/c/| d/c/B/A/ B>d|A>B G>A|G/F/E/D/ B,/B/A/G/|F>DD||

BANKS OF AVON, THE. Scottish, Slow Air (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Walker (b. 1819). According to Paul Stewart Cranford (1991) the tune has currency among modern Cape Breton fiddlers.

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Printed sources : - Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1963; No. 96, p. 33.

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