Jack Campin wrote:
>
> >> - the ballad air "Lord Gregory", which is in 7-bar phrases.
> > Eight bar phrases, surely?
>
> This is the tune I know for it (from several sources):
>
> X:1
> T:Lord Gregory
> B:Burns, Poems and Songs, OED collected edition
> M:3/4
> L:1/8
> K:A Minor
> A2 | e4 A>B |({A}^G4) E2 | A4 B2 | c4 ||\
> (3(ceg)| {f}e4 d>c | B4 c>A| B4 ||
> B2 | e4 A2 | {A}^G4 E2 | A4 B2 | c4 ||\
> (3(ceg)|({f}e4) d>c | c4 TB2 | A4 ||
> A2 | e4 e>e | f4 e2 |({e}d4) d2 |({d}e4)||\
> e>d | c4 cd/e/| {e}d4 c2 | {c}B4 ||
> B2 | e4 A2 | ^G4 F>E| (A4 B2)| c4 ||\
> (3(ceg)| {f}e4 d>c | c4 TB2 | A4 |]
>
> I've put double bars at the line breaks, as in old hymnbooks.
> The air is rather like an old psalm tune, come to think of it,
> and they often have irregular structures.
>
> Is there an 8-bar one in Bronson or somewhere?
>
> Maybe you're prolonging the last note of the three-bar lines?
>
No, I'm singing it in common rather than triple time and there are
several added beats. From Ewan MacColl's 1960s book and other sources,
and quite altered in modal quality too. Would you also use the above
tune if the song was called The Lass of Lochroyan, or Annie of
Roch/Rough Royal? (all basically the same song as far as I'm concerned).
David
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