Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 25th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Birks Of Invermay, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Gmaj
B>c|d3 e d>B A>G|A>G A>B E3 G|D>E DB, D2 G>D|B,2 D>E D2 G>B|
d2 ef/g/ d<B A>G|c>B AG E2 B>A|G>E DB, D2 G>A | B2 A>G G2 D>C|
=B,3 D E>D E<G|A>G A<B E2 e2|d>e d>B c>B A<G|c>d c>B A2 d>c|
B>d e>f g3 e|d>B A>G E2 B>A|G>E DB, D2 G>A|B2 A>G G2|]
The Birks of Invermay
One of the tunes listed against a recording submitted by Ceolachan:
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2551
Quite a few of the tunes on this recording were already posted to thesession tune db, but this was one that wasn't.
Birks = Birch Trees (note that it's "Birks", and not "Berks"!)
Invermay is an estate in on the northern edge of the Ochil Hills, central Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
# Posted on March 25th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Is there meant to be...
a B flat somewhere? I only ask because of the B that's made natural without any clear need.
# Posted on March 26th 2009 by muspc
Geminiani
Also found as a slow air in Francesco Geminiani's collection of Scots airs (ca. 1740)
# Posted on April 1st 2009 by usedbullfrog