Keep it up.

X: 140
T: Keep it up.
T: As a thoiseach.
R: air, reel
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.66 #3 (and top 4 staffs on p.67)
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C|
L: 1/8
Q: "Dance & Song."
K: Edor	% Em in the book, but all the c notes are sharp.
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 1 reformatted for 2 8-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
c |\
dEBD dEBc | dEBE FDDc | dEBE GBeB | cAdA FDDc ||\
dEBE dEBc | dEBE FDDc | dEBE GBeB | cAdA FDD |]
[| f |\
gebe geef | gebe fddf | gebe gefd | cAdA FDDf ||\
gebe geef | gebe fddf | ebgb fbeg | fcdA FDD |]
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z |\
[e2E2][e2E2] [e2E2][e2E2] | [e2E2][e2E2] [d2D2][d2D2] |\
[e2E2][e2E2] [e2E2][e2E2] | a2a2 d2d2 || [e2E2][e2E2] [e2E2][e2E2] |
[e2E2][e2E2] [d2D2][d2D2] | [e2E2][e2E2] [e2E2][e2E2] | a2a2 d2d |]\
[| z |\
[e'2e2][e'2e2] [e'2e2][e'2e2] | [e'2e2][e'2e2] [d'2d2][d'2d2] | [e'2e2][e'2e2] [e'2e2]z2 |
[a2A2][a2A2] [d'2d2][d'2d2] || [e'2e2][e'2e2] [e'2e2][e'2e2] |\
[e'2e2][e'2e2] [d'2d2][d'2d2] | [e'2e2][e'2e2] ^d2e2 | a2A2 d2d |]
% = = = = = = = = = =

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI-abc1/0019
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI-abc2/0019
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc1/0021
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc2/0026

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