Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 18th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 30 tunebooks.
Also known as Bonny Dundee.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Bonnie Dundee
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
ded dBd|gfe d2c|BdD BdB|ABA ABc|
ded dBd|gfe d2c|BdG AdF|GAG G3:|
|:GGG GcB|ADD D3|AAA ABc|cBA B2G|
BAB cBc|dcd edc|BdG AdF|GAG G3:||
From the New England Fiddler's repertoire
# Posted on December 18th 2002 by lazyhound
ok - stupid question - what is 'The New England Fiddler's repertoire' anyhow????
# Posted on December 19th 2002 by bb
I should have typed "repertoire" as "Repertoire"! It is a small loose-leaf book of fiddle tunes about 20-30 years old. My copy is from a second-hand bookshop and is rather tattered and worn. I haven't come across the book elsewhere. Many of the tunes do not seem to be in other publications, so are good candidates for posting on The Session; others are sometimes older or unusual versions of well-known tunes, so I like to post these as comments to tunes already on The Session database. I try to be on the look-out for name changes and when in doubt I do a character string search on a typical ABC fragment of the tune. However, for various reasons, these searches are not infallible, and it possible to get caught out.
I hope you enjoy these NE tunes, many of them make excellent session tunes.
trevor
# Posted on December 19th 2002 by lazyhound
Pipes
is this a highland pipes tune? i'm pretty sure it's a tune that a flute/scots pipes player used to do in a session a few years ago
# Posted on December 19th 2002 by biggus dave
Bonnie dundee
It wouldn't be a highland pipe tune in that key, but could be if you shift it up half an octave. My Scottish history's very rusty, but I think the song to this tune relates to events around the first Jacobite rising in 1715. It was a great favourite of Scottish folk duo the "Corries". Incidentally, it is not about the city of Dundee.
I'll check up on the history and get back to you.
# Posted on December 20th 2002 by Kenny
he used to play it either B flat or E flat,Kenny
# Posted on December 20th 2002 by biggus dave
This is a highland pipe tune, normally played as a 6/8 march, and set in D major (that's what the music says, but pipes don't always follow normal key signature/tuning - the "a" on my pipes is actually an e flat.)
# Posted on December 20th 2002 by Paddy
yeah,i know - whatever 'key' the tune's in,it sounded b/e flat. i used to have to play the atholl highlanders in b flat with this bloke.but thanks confirming it as a piping thing.
# Posted on December 20th 2002 by biggus dave
Bonny dundee
If anyone's still interested - according to "The Auld Scotch Sangs" - published in 1889, words to "Bonny Dundee" are by Sir Walter Scott. Original tune is titled "The Band At A Distance" (good name for a group !). "Dundee" in the song was Graham Claverhouse, the rebel viscount of Dundee. First version of the song was published in 1719.
# Posted on January 5th 2003 by Kenny
Bonnie Dundee
This is a great tune.Try this setting in A.It also sounds good if you play it slowly as a waltz. K:Amajor |:e>fe efg|agf e2d|ceA ceA|B>BB B>cd|e>fe efg|agf e2d|ceE BeE| A>AA A3:|A>AA Adc|BEE E3|B>BB Bcd|dcc cBA|cBc dcd|ede fed|ceE BeE| A
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire" ~ Randy Miller & Jack Perron
Now it it's second edition, 2003, originally published in 1983.
This is a collection of tunes for New England style square and contra dancing, which happens to be heavy on the Celtic content, Scotch and Irish. The Miller brothers hail from New Hampshire and are damned fine dance musicians. You'll find some of Randy's other efforts of compilation here:
http://www.randymillerprints.com/
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
# Posted on November 19th 2005 by ceolachan