Key signature: Fmajor
Submitted on February 7th 2004 by Trevor Jennings.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mountain Belle
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Fmaj
|:(3cde|f2 A2 c2 dc|B2 E2 G2 g>a|b>a g>f e>d c>B|A>B c>d c2 (3cde|
f2 A2 c2 dc|B2 E2 G2 g>a|b>a g>f e>c d>e|f2 f2 f2 :|
|:z2|e2 g2 e2 dc|b2 a2 f4|b2 a2 f2 ef|a2 g2 e4|
e2 g2 e2 dc|b2 a2 f4|b2 a2 d2 ed|c2 e2 c2:|
|:F_E|D2 F2 B3c|B2 A2 c4|g2 c2 g2 c2|g2 f2 d4|
D2 F2 B3c|B2 A2 c4|g2 c2 g2 c2|B2 b2 b2:|
Mountain Belle
This is in response to a request by Colin Turner in a comment he made recently on Bonnie Kate.
Mountain Belle is evidently closely related to The Old Black Guard, already on this database. It appears to have been written by George H Watson (1850-1880).
I got this tune from J-C's database, but I changed the time signature from 2/4 to 4/4 and the default note length from 1/16 to 1/8, so as to fit in with everything else here, and, incidentally, to make it more readable.
Trevor
# Posted on February 7th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
Hybrid Mountain Belle?
Thanks for taking the trouble to post this one, Trevor. The first strain is very much as I remember it, and the third strain is close, too. However the second strain is not at all as played by the New Victory Band. The version they played bears a much closer resemblance to "The Ideal Schottische" recorded by the Cheviot Ranters. If I put all the pieces together this tune should last, if played with repeats and at a steady pace, a good 10 minutes or more!
Thanks again,
Colin
# Posted on February 9th 2004 by fen slodger