. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. In the series of A—the air WanderingWillie,. The air, of which this is the first part, isconsidered as in the minor mode, because boththe first and second parts terminate in thatmode; but it is evident, that a considerableportion of the above passage must be treated asbeing in the key of C major. The following (in the same series) is a re-markable instance of the same sort of equivocalmodulation.
. [A composite music volume containing different issues of Thomson's octavo] collection of the songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott ...: united to the select melodies of Scotland, and of Ireland & Wales. In the series of A—the air WanderingWillie,. The air, of which this is the first part, isconsidered as in the minor mode, because boththe first and second parts terminate in thatmode; but it is evident, that a considerableportion of the above passage must be treated asbeing in the key of C major. The following (in the same series) is a re-markable instance of the same sort of equivocalmodulation. The Mucking of Geordies Byre. ^^^^^^^sn The close in A minor here determines thekey, and renders it necessary, in harmonizingthe air, to preserve the impression of this keyas much as possible ; but if the final note werechanged from A to C, and a slight change madeon the preceding bar, the whole air might beconsidered and harmonized as in the key of Cmajor. The following passage (the first part of Bonny Dundee) is constructed upon theseries of D; and, though the third is alwayspassed over, yet it is felt to be in the key ofD minor.
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