Annotation:Bonny Cumberland
X:53 C:Page 27 T:Bonny Cumberland. MBe.53 A:England;Cumbria;Towcett B:Matthew Betham MS, Towcett Cumbria, 1815 Z:VMP - Hugh Taylor, 2012 M:2/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=120 R: N:At the foot of the page is written, in a similar hand, "Matthew Bethams Book 1815" and someone has N:added in a different hand (in an attempt at clarifying the date?) "? 1815" N:NB-As written, the A part has only 7 bars. I have added this 7th bar, to make the A part 4 bars repeated. N:Key sig as in MS, though C# implied in B part K:G AD "^Key sig as in MS"FD|AD Fd|AD FD|EFGB|AD FD|AD Fd|"^NB-bar added"AD FD|EFGB:| |:D2 dd|e/f/e/d/ cd|D2 dd|B/F/D EF|D2 dd|e/f/e/d/ cd|f/e/d/c/ dA|FDEF:|
BONNY CUMBERLAND. English, Reel (2/4 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The first strain is similar to Bremner's "Maggy's Weame is Fu I Trow" as well as other tunes; it is a fairly common melodic and harmonic fiddle tune motif.
