David Kilpatrick wrote:
> Jack Campin wrote:
>>>> - the ballad air "Lord Gregory", which is in 7-bar phrases.
>>> Eight bar phrases, surely?
>> This is the tune I know for it: [late-18th-century Scottish version]
> I'm singing it in common rather than triple time and there are
> several added beats. From Ewan MacColl's 1960s book and other
> sources, and quite altered in modal quality too.
According to his notes, MacColl's was from a version collected in
Wiltshire. I wonder why he picked that one? Reminds me of something
else entirely but I can't place it.
> Would you also use the above tune if the song was called The
> Lass of Lochroyan, or Annie of Roch/Rough Royal? (all basically
> the same song as far as I'm concerned).
Yes - and I've heard other people use the 3/4 7-bar melodic-minor tune
recently too (or rather, somewhat less twiddly settings thereof, Burns's
has a touch of the Anne Lorne Gillies about it). The rhythm seems more
expressive and appropriate to me, a kind of dark lullaby.
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