Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on September 21st 2009 by rtarnell.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as The Bonny Breast Knot, Bonny Breast Knots, The Bonny Breast Knots, Bonny Breastknot, Bonny Breastknots.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Bonny Breast Knot
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:dc |B2 G2 G2 AB | cBAG A2 D2 | GABA GABA | GA B2 d2>c2 |
B2 G2 G2 AB | cBAG A2 D2 | GA B2 A2 dc | B2 G2 G2 :|
|: Bc |d4 d2>e2 | dcBA G2 B2 | AGAB cBcd | e2 A2 A2 Bc |
d4 d2>e2 | dcBA G2 B2 | A2 c2 D2 EF | G2 B2 G2 :|
i don't know much about this tune; could be English. around here it's inevitably followed by Bonny Kate (not the Irish one; http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2452). Wood & Cutting recorded the same set on "Knock John".
# Posted on September 21st 2009 by rtarnell
Bonny Breastknot(s)
There are a couple of tunes with this name from Sussex and Devon. The Fiddlers Companion has something interesting to say about them
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/BONN_BONNY.htm
# Posted on September 21st 2009 by Alancorsini
It is of course the tune from Sussex (England) that you have posted, rtarnell.
Foor the benefit of anyone interested, Bonny Breast Knot (Devon, England)) is another fine English tune - and totally different from the Sussex one.
Both tunes are associated with dances of the same name, so the tune that is the subject of this particular posting might perhaps be more appropriately be classified as "barndance", rather than "reel".
I'm told that there a third tune (different again) also called "Bonny Breast Knot", though I've never been able to track it down ....
# Posted on September 22nd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Bonny Breat Knot
Cutting & Wood do it in D. I have only ever played it in G and only ever heard it at sessions in G
# Posted on September 24th 2009 by ph
"Devon" Bonny Breastknots
I know this posting is the "Sussex" Bonny Breastknots, but the Devon tune of the same name which has (inevitably) been referred to is to all intents and purposes the first two parts of the "Jolly Tinker" (q.v.), usually a five-part.
# Posted on December 7th 2009 by phil heheir