Note - 'My Ain Kind Dearie' = 'The Lea Rigges' is a fiddle tune originally.
So the articulation marks are likely copied after some 'primarily fiddle'
source. I would read the slurred passages as 'poco staccato', and the read the
long slurred runs as phrasings - shorten the last note to separate it clearly
from what follows. But never slur any note into the next.
The first half of bar 1, for example, {G/A/}BD .D.E , I would play the {GA}
grace very staccato. The B I would play near maximum length, and both D's a
bit short. But never lose sight of the phrasing of the tune - it's the air of
a song.
I would read 'slurred' ornaments like in the next bar, {G/A/B/}A>B/
c/B/A/G/ with each of the {G/A/B/} staccato, but try to play them as a unit,
belonging to the A that follows.
The last bar but one, and the bar 4 bars earlier, have a passage B/A/ G/F/
G/D/E/F/. The 2nd time each pair of notes is written slurred, the 1st time
not. The slurred pairs I would try to lengthen the first to near full length,
shorten the second to separate from the next pair. When unslurred I would try
to play more even separate semiquavers, to bring out the contrast.
John
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