Annotation:Love for Ever (2)
X: 1 T: Love for Ever %R: hornpipe, reel Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> B: John Treat - "Gamut for the Fifes", 1779, p.24 #2 F: https://archive.org/details/GamutFortheFifes N: The rhythms in both final bars wrong; fixed with added dots and a rest. N: The little 'g' in above bar 10 might be an alternate note. M: C L: 1/8 K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - c |\ dAFA dAFA | dA[AF]A d4 | egfa gefd | efed dcBA | dAFA dAFA | dAFA d4 | eg fa ge fd | eg ec d3 :| |: z |\ a2af g2ge | f2"^g"[fd]d d4 | A2AF G2GE | F2FD E4 | g2ge f2fd | e2ec d2g2 | fafd egec | d2d>d d3 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
LOVE FOR EVER [2]. English, Reel. England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The core source for this tune has not been located yet, but it appears in numerous late 18th and early 19th century musicians' manuscript collections, including the American collections of flute player Henry Beck (1786), fifer Nathaniel Brown (Verplancks Point, N.Y & Durham, Ct., 1781), George Otis (Worcester, Mass., 1793), Ira Clark (Simsbury, Ct., 1801), Abel and Park Shattuck (Colrain, Mass., 1801-182?), John Treat (Durham, c. 1779-1802?), and John Greenwood (c. 1785).
