What pain I've endured since last year.

X: 153
T: What pain I've endured since last year.
T: Gur mis 'tha gu craitach o'n'uiruidh.
R: air, slip-jig
N: This is version 2, for ABC software that understands cresc/diminuendo symbols.
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.72 #1
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: In bar 2 the bass E notes on beats 2 & 3 lack dots.
N: Bar 9 has treble clef in both voices; bar 10 returns to bass clef in voice 2.
U: p=!crescendo(!
U: P=!crescendo)!
U: Q=!diminuendo(!
U: q=!diminuendo)!
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
Q: "Slow with Expression"
K: Em
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 1 reformatted for 2 6-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
(g/f/) |!p!\
e.B.B TB>AG F<Dz/F/ | [E2G,2]F (TG>FG) [B2G2](g/f/) |"_cres"\
e.B.B TB>AG F<D z/F/ | E>Fd QTB>AF q[E2G,2] :|\
B |!p!\
B.e.e B.g.g fdTd | B.e.e B.g.g {g}Tf2A |
"_cres"\
.B.e.e B.g.g Tf>ed | e2d/B/ pB>^AB/^d/ PHe2 || (d/c/) |!p!\
B.e.e B.g.g fdTd |"_cres" B.e.e B.g.g {g}Tf2A |\
.B(ef) "_Exp."g>ag Tf>ed | e2d/B/ TB>^AB/^d/ e2 |]
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z | e3 B2^c d2z | e3 [b3e2] [g3e2] |"_cres"e3 g2^c d3 | g2f b2B e2 :|
z | e3 e2^c' d'2z | e2b e2^c d2z |"_cres"e2b e2^c' d'2z | e2g b2B He2 || z |
!p!g'2f' e'2^c' d'2z |"_cres"g2f e2^c d2z | e2a "_Exp."b3 B3 | e2g b2B e2 |]
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI-abc2/0033
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc2/0047

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