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Highland Dress & Armour.
Found in AMHSI_abc1.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 127
T: Highland Dress & Armour.
T: Cuir a nall an cile' bheag is cur a nall an armacdh.
R: air, strathspey
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.60 #2 (and top of p.61)
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
Q: "Strathspey Style."
K: C
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% Voice 1 reformatted for 3 12-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
V: 1 staves=2
c |\
G<CTG>E G>CE<c | G<CTG>D E2E>c | G<CTG>E G>CE<c | G<cE<c {E}D2D :| f |\
(3.e.f.g (3.f.g.a e>cc<e | d<Bc>G E2Eg | (3.e.f.g (3.f.g.a e<cc<e | G<cE<c {E}D2Df ||
(3.e.f.g (3.f.g.a e>cc<e | d>Bc>G E2Ee | c>ed<e c<eA<c | G<cE<c {E}D2D |: e/f/ |\
g<ca>c g>ce<a | g<cTg>d {c}e2ef | g<ca>c g>ce<a | g<cTg>e {e}d2d :|
f |\
c>e d/c/B/A/ G<EE<c | G<Ec>G E2Ee | c>e d/c/B/A/ G<EE>c | GcEc {E}D2Dd ||\
c>e d/c/B/A/ GEEc | G<Ec>G E2Ee | c>ed<e c<eA<c | G>cE<c {E}D2D |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z |\
[c2C2][c2C2] [c2C2][c2C2] | [c2C2][B2B,2] [c2C2][c2C2] | [c2C2][c2C2] [c2C2][c2C2] | c2c'2 g2G :| z | [e2c2][f2c2] [g2c2]z2 |
g2e2 c2c'2 | [e2c2][f2c2] [g2c2]z2 | e2c2 G2z2 || [e2c2][f2c2] [g2c2]z2 | g2e2 c2c'2 | c2g2 e2f2 |
e2c2 g2G |: z | [c2C2][c2C2] [c2C2][c2C2] | [c2C2][B2B,2] [c2C2][c2C2] | [c2C2][c2C2] [c2C2][c2C2] | [c2C2][c2C2] g2G :| z |\
c2c'2 c2c'2 | c2c'2 c2c'2 |
c2c'2 c2c'2 | c2c'2 g2G2 || c2c'2 c2c'2 | c2c'2 c2c'2 | c2g2 e2f2 | e2c2 G3 |]
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