My Love to day as heretofore.

X: 165
T: My Love to day as heretofore.
T: Mo Run an diu mar an de u.
R: air.
N: This is version 2, for ABC software that understands dim/crescendo symbols.
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.77 #2
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The 2 endings have :||: between them; transcribed as the usual :|[2 ending.
U: p=!crescendo(!
U: P=!crescendo)!
U: Q=!diminuendo(!
U: q=!diminuendo)!
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Q: "Slow & Pathetic."
K: G
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 1 reformatted for 2 9-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
|:!p!\
(TB>AB) {^c}d3 | G2[DB,] [E2C2]G | "_cres"(Te>^de) {f} g3 | {^c}=d2A B2d ||\
"_dim"(Te2d) {f}g2B | Q[G2B,2]q[DB,] Q[E2C2]q[DB,] |\
!pp! QTB2qAQd2qe | Q{e}d2qB QG2qA :: !p! {G}T[B2G2][AF] [A2F2D2][GB,] |
[G2B,2][DB,] [E2C2][GB,] | "_cres"{c}[e2c2][dB] [d2B2][ec] | {^c}d2A B2d ||\
T{e^def}!f!Hg2f e2B | [G2B,2][DB,] [E2C2][DB,] \
|[1!pp!QTB2qA Qd2qe | {e}Qd2qB QG2qA :|[2 p(TB>AB) PHe3 | pd>BA PG3 |]
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
|:!p!\
g3 f3 | e2B c2z | "_cres"c'3 b3 | f2d g3 || "_dim"c'2z b2z | B2z c2z |
!pp!g2z f2z | g3 G2z ::!pp! g2z d2z | e2z c2z | "_cres"c'2z g2z | f2d g2f ||
!f!e2d c2z | B2z c2z |[1 !p!d'2c' b2c' | d'2d g2z :|[2 d3 Hc3 | d2D G3 |]
% = = = = = = = = = =

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI-abc2/0045
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc2/0065

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