Dear All,
We were playing Peacock 'My Deary sits ower late up' in Oxford at the
weekend.
One minor thing is that the reprint edition has a typo in the
penultimate strain, the 1st bar beginning
g/f/|egB egB...
instead of
g/f/|egd egB ...
as in Peacock itself - see FARNE or the facsimile.
The typo gives an e minor flavour which doesn't belong, I feel.
I was also looking at the other versions: 'My Bonny Bay Mare and I', in
Peacock, and 'My Hinny sits ower late up' in Bell (on FARNE).
Rook has a different title - 'The Auld Grey Mare and I',
[1]http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/rook_pages/168.htm
but note for note, otherwise identical to Peacock's Bonny Bay Mare.
Of course the oldest pipe version is Dixon's 'Adam a Bell'.
Are there any other early versions out there that I have missed?
The similarities and differences between these are quite instructive.
John
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References
1. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/rook_pages/168.htm
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