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Culloden Day.
Found in AMHSI_abc1.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 143
T: Culloden Day.
T: N'cuala sign mar thachair dhuin
R: air, strathspey
B: Simon Fraser's "Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles" 1816 p.68 #1
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/16
Q: "Slow"
K: Eb % and Cm
% = = = = = = = = = =
% Voice 1 reformatted for 3 4-bar lines, for compactness and proofreading.
% Bar 2 is short by an 8th note; fixed in one possible way.
V: 1 staves=2
(GF) |!p!\
[EG,2]G3 (TG3^F/G/) B2G2G3=B | c3Ge3E [F4D4]z(ATGF) |\
"_cres"[E3G,3]G (TG2^FG) | B2G2G3(^f | g3)(d e3)(^F G4) G2 ::
(e>f) |\
!f! {ef}g3f {d}e3d c2G2G3c |!p! {G}B3GG3E {E}F4 F2 (ef) |\
!f! g3f {d}e3d c2G2G2(cd) |!p! {cd}e3dc3B {^F}~G4 G2(ef) |
!f! {ef}g3f {d}e3d c2G2G3c |!p!B2G2G2E2 F4 TF2(EF) |\
!f! G3FE2D2 CDEF G3(^f | g3)(de3)(^F [G4D4]) [G2D2] |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the staff layout in the book.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
z2 | e4 e4 e4 e2d2 | c4 c4 B4 b4 | e4 e4 e4 z4 | e2B2 c2d2 G4 G2 ::
z2 | e3f g4 a4 e4 | e4 e4 B4 z4 | e3fg4 e4 E4 | e2d2 e2d2 e4 e4 |
e3f g4 e4 E4 | e4 e4 B4 z4 | e2d2c2=B2 _A4 G2z2 | e2f2c2d2 [G4=b4] [G2b2] |]
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