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"Helen Douglas" or "the Lady of the Lake".
Found in AMHSI-abc1.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 134
T: "Helen Douglas" or "the Lady of the Lake".
T: Helen Dudhglais.
R: air
N: This is version 1, for ABC software that doesn't understand cres/diminuendo symbols.
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.64 #1
Z: 2024 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The 2nd strain has initial repeat but no final repeat symbol; not fixed.
N: Initial rest added to 2nd strain to fix the rhythm.
M: 3/8
Q: "Slow & Wildly expressive"
L: 1/16
K: C % and Am
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% Voice 1 reformatted for 4 12-bar lines, for compactness and better spacing.
V: 1 staves=2
(g/a/g/f/ |\
[e4c4]) (d/e/d/c/ | [B4G4]) !p!c>B | (A3B/c/ d/c/B/A/) | G2[E2C2][E2C2] ||\
[F4A,4] ("_cres"GF) | [E4C4] {c}ed | "_>..."c4 TB(A/B/) | A2z2 (g/a/g/f/ ||\
!p! [e4c4]) (d/e/d/c/ | [B4G4]) c>B | (A3B/c/ d/c/B/A/) | G2[E2C2][E2C2] ||
(e2a2"_<"{b}c'2) | "_>..."{f}e4 (dc) | (B2e2)[B2^G2] | ("_>"B2A2) ::\
!p!z2| [c6E6] | [B6^G6] | "_<......"(A^G)(ABcd) | "^<..."(e2{^g}.a2){g}.a2 ||\
"_cres"[c6E6] | [B6^G6] | "_dim"(~A3Bc.G) | H[E6C6] ||
!ff![c6E6] | [d6G6] | c(Ccdeg) | "_<..."e2a2He'2 ||\
(e2!p!a2{b}"_<"c'2) | "_>..."{f}e4 (dc) | B2e2^G2 | "_>"B2H[A4C4] ||\
!p![c6E6] | [B6^G6] | "_<......."(A^G)(ABcd) | "_<..."(e2{^g}a2{g}a2) ||
"_cres."[c6E6] | [B6^G6] | ("_dim."~A3Bc.G) | H[E6C6] ||\
!ff![c6E6] | [d6G6] | cC(cdeg) | "<..."e2a2H.e'2 ||\
(e2!p!a2{b}c'2) | "_>.."{f}e4 (dc) | B2e2^G2 | "_>.."B2[A4C4] |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z2 | c2e2f2 | g2!p!f2e2 | f2e2d2 | B2c2c2 || d2B2G2 | c2e2 cd | e4 E2 | A2a2z2 ||!p! c2e2f2 |
g2f2e2 | f2e2d2 | B2c2c2 || c'4 a2 | a2b2c'2 | d'2e'2e2 | a2A2 ::!p!z2| a2c'2a2 | e2^g2e2 | f4 ed |
c4 A2 || "_cres"a2c'2a2 | e2^g2e2 | "_dim"f4 e2 | Hc6 ||!ff! c2e2c2 | G2B2G2 | c6 | Hc'6 || c'4!p!a2 | a2b2c'2 | d'2e'2e2 | H[a6e6A6] ||!p! a2c'2a2 |
e2^g2e2 | f4ed | c4A2 || "_cres"a2c'2a2 | e2^g2e2 | "_dim."f4e2 | Hc6 || !ff!c2e2c2 | G2B2G2 | c6 | Hc'6 || c'4!p!a2 | a2b2c'2 | d'2e'2e2 | a2e2A2 |]
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