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My Recent Gift
Found in AMHSI-abc1.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 196
T: My Recent Gift
T: Mo chean air an ur ghibht
R: air, waltz
N: This is version 1, for ABC software that doesn't understand cres/diminuendo symbols or trailing grace notes.
N: The trailing grace notes were transcribed here as 16th-notes after the (shortened) main note.
N: The cres/dim symbols were transcribed as < and > over the first note, with a few dots afterward.
B: Simon Fraser'sr "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.91 #2
Z: 2022 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The 2nd strain has an initial repeat but no final repeat symbol; not fixed.
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
Q: "Slow"
K: Am % and C
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 1 reformatted for 2 12-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
c>d |!p!\
{c}B2 A^GEG | "_>..."(B2 A2 )B>A | {A}=G3 E^GB | "_>..."{B}A2 z2 c>d |\
"_cres"{cd}e2 G2 (A>G) | {G}A2 G<EA>G | "_dim."{G}A2 G<E"_>..."(TDC/D/) | C2 z2 ::\
"_<..."(E>F) |!p!G4A>B | "_<..."c2 e2 d>c | {c}B2 A>^GEG | A2 z2 "_<..."c>d |
"_cres"{cd}e2 G2 A>G | {G}A2 GEA>G | "_dim"{G}A2 GE "_>..."(TDC/D/) | C4"_<..."(E>F) |\
!p!G4A>B | "_<..."c2 e2 d>c | B2 A>^GEG | HA4 (G/A/B) |\
"_Exp."c2 "_dim"c2 (E>D) | E2 A2 "_>..."TG>F | "_>....."E3 F(TDC/D/) | C4 |]
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
a2 |\
^g2 e2 cB | A2 a2 z2 | e2 c2 e2 | a2 A2 z2 | c'2 c2 f2 | F2 c2 f2 |
f2 g2 G2 | c2 z2 :: c'2 | b2 g2 f2 | e2 c2 Bc | d2 e2 E2 | Aagfed |
c2 c'2 f2 | c'2 c2 f2 | c'2 g2 G2 | c4c'2 | b2 g2 f2 | e2 c2 Bc | d2 e2 E2 |
A2 Ha2 ed | c2 e2 c'b | c'2 f2 ef | g4G2 | c4 |]
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