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Right Scotch Contention
Found in Right_Scotch_Contention.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 1 T: Right Scotch Contention T: the Duke of Athol's Rant %R: strathspey B: "Caledonian Country Dances" printed by John Walsh for John Johnson, London S: 1: CCDTB http://imslp.org/wiki/Caledonian_Country_Dances_with_a_Thorough_Bass_(Various) p.100 S: http://www.kantoreiarchiv.de/archiv/folk/caldonian_country_dances/0100.pdf Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: The 1st 2 beats of bar 5 are mostly illegible; copied from bar 7. N: The bass line has A rather than B in the last bar, clearly a typo (also fixed in kantoreiarchiv.de). N: Repeats added to satisfy the "Each Strain twice" instruction. M: C| L: 1/16 K: Em V: 1 |: E3EE3E G3AB3G | c2A2B2G2 c2A2B2G2 | E3EE3E G3AB3G | c2A2B2G2 E4e4 :| |: g3ag3e dcBA G2B2 | cBcA e2A2 cBcA e2A2 | g3ag3e dcBA G2B2 | c2A2B2G2 E4e4 :| V: 2 clef=bass middle=d |: e8 e2f2g2e2 | a4g4 a4e4 | z4e4 z2f2 g2e2 | A2c2B4 e8 :| |: z4e4 f4g4 | a4z4 a4z4 | z4e4 f4g2G2 | A2c2B4 e8 :|
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