> re: Johnnie Cope
>> Do you play a set of variations?
> I do like the way Donald MacLellan plays it in Gm with variations; my
> husband plays Donald's verson and says it has six parts. He also plays
> a Mary MacDonald version in Am and says it has seven parts. I seem to
> recall an old article in Cape Breton's Magazine in which Doug MacPhee
> explained that there are two added parts sometimes played in the Am
> Cape Breton setting. There was a transcription too. David says the Gm
> and Am settings are quite different from each other and he was giving
> me an outline of them ("goes to B-flat" etc), but I would have to play
> them side by side to get it straight. I think one of the versions is
> somewhat similar to what is in the Gesto Collection.
If I remember, the Cape Breton version that you and David put on the
Lighthouse Publications website is virtually identical to this one,
which is presumably pretty close to what Maclean originally wrote.
If we knew when "Johnnie Cope" first became popular, that would give us
another data point on Maclean's little-documented life. We know he was
dead when the collection was published (some people say 1773), but he'd
vanished from the historical record before 1745. Was the song an instant
hit, or would it have taken a few years before anyone would think of trying
something like this?
X:6
T:Johnie Cope
S:Charles Maclean, Collection of Favourite Scots Tunes, pub. Neil Stewart, c.1770
L:1/16
M:C|
K:Gmin
G4 (GABc) d2G2 (AG)(FD)| F4 (FGAB) c2F2 AGFD |\
G4 (G2Bc) d2G2 A2GF | F2f2 (dc)(BA) G4 G4 :|
B4 B2B,2 (Bc)(d=e) f4 | A2GF F2c2 (AB)(cA) A2G^F|\
G2B2A2c2 B2d2 (A2GF) | F2f2 dcBA G4 G4 :|
G2G,2 GABc dcBA BGFD | F2C2 FGAf cAfc A2GF |\
G2FE DCB,A, G,A,B,C D2CB, | CDFG FDCA, G,4 G,4 :|
g4 (Tg2fg) a2g2 (ag)(fd)| f4 f3g a2gf f2a2 |\
g4 (Tg2fg) a2f2g2d2 |[1 f2c2 (dc)(BA) G4 G4 :|\
[2 F2C2 DCB,A, G,4 G,4 ||
GFGA (GA)(Bc) (de)(dc) (BA)(BG)| (AF)(cF) (dF)(cF) (Ac)(fc) A2GF |\
(Bc)(BA) (G^F)(GD) (GA)(Bc) (dc)(dB)| cdfg fdcA G4 G4 :|
gdgb gdgb GBdg bgdB | fcfa fcfa FAcf afcA |\
(dB)(df) (cA)(cf) (BG)(Bd) (AF)(Ac)| dBcA BGAF G4 G,4 :|
X:7
T:Johnie Cope (bass)
S:Charles Maclean, Collection of Favourite Scots Tunes, pub. Neil Stewart, c.1770
L:1/8
M:C|
K:Gmin bass
G,2 D,2 G,,2 z2|F,2 C,2 F,,2 z2|G,2 D,2 G,,2 z2| z C,D,D,, G,2 G,,2:|
G,2 G,,2 G,,2 z2|F,2 F,,2 F,,2 z2|G,2 D,2 G,,2 z2|"6"B,,C,D,D,, G,,2 G,,2:|
BTW, the above is a terrific piece for the F alto recorder, given a few
octave shifts.
I'm sure I've encountered the A minor version too, but can't think where.
Is it similar to the one in pipe tune books?
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