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Sheet Music for "The Bridge of Nairn" The Bridge of Nairn Cast of two Cu: .| lead up to the Top and cast off :| set cross corners .|. Swing corners and swing your Partner and lead outsides :|: Book: "Scots Reel & Country Dances for the Year 1769", R.Bremner, ed. p.109 #1 Transcription: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> X: 1
T: The Bridge of Nairn
%R: hornpipe, reel
B: "Scots Reel & Country Dances for the Year 1769", R.Bremner, ed. p.109 #1
F:
http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=104993891
Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C|
L: 1/8
F:
http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1769/Bremner/SRCD.abc
K: G
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V: 1
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G>Bd>B e2(eg) | d>BG>B A/A/A A2 |\
(G/A/B/c/ d)B e2ef | g>aTg>d B/B/B B2 :|
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g>aTge dedB | g>aTge agab |\
gbeg dega | (b/a/g/e/ g)d B/B/B B2 :|
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V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
|: g2g2 g2g2 | g2g2 a2a2 | g2g2 c2c2 | d2d2 G2G2 :|
|: g2g2 g2g2 | g2g2 a2a2 | g2g2 g2g2 | d2d2 G2G2 :|
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%% set cross corners .|.
%% Swing corners and swing your Partner and lead outsides :|:
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BRIDGE OF NAIRN, THE . AKA and see "Old Man Will Never Die (The) ," "Trip to Bath (4) ." Scottish, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the tune earliest in print in Edinburgh/London music publisher Robert Bremner 's second collection, 1768 (p. 109).
Additional notes
Printed sources Robert Bremner (For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances ), p. 109.
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