Annotation:Hark! The Bonnie High Church Bells
X: 1 T: HARK! THE BONNIE HIGH CHURCH BELLS. C: Dr. Aldrich. N: This tune is a close relative of Christchurch Bells. Q: "With Spirit." %R: air, march B: W. Hamilton "Universal Tune-Book" Vol. 2 Glasgow 1846 p.37 #2 S: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/itma.dl.printmaterial/book_pdfs/hamiltonvol2web.pdf Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 2/4 L: 1/16 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/Hamilton/HUTB2-1846-V1.abc K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ d3dd2d2 | d3dd2f2 | e3dc2B2 | A2^G2A2=G2 |\ F2A2E2A2 | F2A2E2g2 | f2ed e2dc | d3ed2z2 :| |:\ ffff f2z2 | ffff f2a2 | g3fe2d2 | e3cA2G2 |\ F2A2E2A2 | F2A2E2g2 | f2ed e2dc | d3ed2z2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
HARK! THE BONNIE HIGH CHURCH BELLS. Scottish, Air or March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was composed by Dr. Henry Aldrich, a Dean of Christ Church (originally called Cardinal College). Aldrich (1648-1710) produced some sixty anthems, four sets of service music, and various ceremonial pieces, having worked throughout as an amateur. His compositions circulated widely beyond Oxford and are prominently represented in the extant eighteenth-century partbooks from the Chapel Royal. An important facet of his output are his recompositions (about thirty-five of his anthems fall into this category), works which take as models motets of Byrd, Carissimi, Palestrina, and others. Those works are not merely contrafacta, since they are fitted with new English texts and are altered musically as well, sometimes substantially. In Restoration England, Aldrich was largely unparalleled in working in such a manner, though his procedures are closely related to the educational methods of his time, which had relied heavily on the translation of venerable models.
The tune has also been set as a round.
