Cheerful Mary

X: 204
T: Cheerful Mary
T: Mari ghreannar
R: jig
N: This is version 2, for ABC software that understands crescendo symbols.
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.94 #3
Z: 2022 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The repeat symbols used with the alternate endings were a bit garbled, and can't be made top
N: with modern repeat notation, so I transcribed "the usual" interpretation of the two endings.
U: p=!crescendo(!
U: P=!crescendo)!
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
Q: "Moderate."
K: Bb   % ending on Gm
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% Voice 1 formatted for 2 10-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
B |\
!p!{DE}F2D F2G | B2B ~B2c | "_cres"d2f {d}c2A | TB2A G2B ||\
!p!{DE}F2D F2A | TB2F D2F | pE2^C D2^F | {^F}P[G3D3B,3] [G2D2B,2] :|\
!p!B | B,2B TB2A | B2B ~B2c |
"_cres"d2f {d}c2A | TB2A G2g |\
[1 !f!f2"_dim"e d2c | TB2F D2F | pD2^C D2^F | {^F}PG3 G2 :|\
[2 {g^fga}"_f dim"b2a g2=f | d2c B2F | p(D2^C) D2^F | P[G3D3B,3] [G2D2B,2] |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z |!p! B2b B2b | B2b B2b | "_cres"[b3B3] [f3F3] | g2f e3 ||\
!p! [b3B3] [b3B3] | [b3d3] [b3f3] | B3 d2D | [g3G3] [g2G2] :|\
z | B2b B2b | B2b B2f |
"_cres"[b3B3] [f3F3] | g2f e3 |\
[1 !f!d2"_dim"c B2c | d3 B3 | d3 D3 | G3 g2 :|\
[2 "_f dim"d2f e2d | B3 b3 | d3 D3 | [g3G3] [g2G2] |]
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI-abc2/0085
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Fraser/AMHSI_abc2/0127

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