Bonny Lass of Aberdeen (1) (The)

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Theme code Index	6655 1H1H43
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:James E. Morrison
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Twenty Four Early American Country Dances Cotillions & Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 21
Year of publication/Date of MS	1976
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BONNY LASS OF ABERDEEN. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This title has infrequently been used for the tune also known as "The Blackbird [1]," as, for example in Giles Gibbs' 1777 American flute MS. Another period American manuscript containing the melody (under the "Bonny Lass of Aberdeen" title) is Litchfield, Conn., musician Morris Woodruff's 1803 music copybook. Morrison gives it as a dance and tune popular in post-Revolutionary War America, perhaps with additional evidence other than Gibbs. The melody appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1743-59).

Printed source: Morrison, 1976; p. 21.

X:1
T:Bonny Lass of Aberdeen
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:D
A2|B2 Bc A2 (3ABc|dcdA G2 FG|A2 AB cABG|F2 DD D2 GA|
B2 Bc A2 (3ABc|dcdA G2 FE|DEFG ABAG|F2 DD D2:|
|:de|fefg a2 gf|gfga g2 fe|defg abag|f2d2 defg|
agfa g2 fe|fdcA f2 ed|cABA GBAG|F2 DD D2:||