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Annie Laurie: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Annie Laurie, sung by the soprano, in C, from C4 to E5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries Lady John Scott's tune, most often on C, high and low, down to middle C, as on the opening "Maxwelton" and "Her brow is" and every last "dee.", and up to its top E on "true," and "be;" in verse 1, on "on," and "e'e" in verse 2, and on the "And" that opens each "And for bonnie Annie Laurie".

Range
C4 to E5
Key
C
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About Annie Laurie

Words: an older Scottish song, said to be by Douglas of Fingland, reworked by Lady John Scott (1810-1900), who altered its second verse

Tune: Lady John Scott (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode, 1810-1900)

Annie Laurie grew from an older Scottish song. C. K. Sharpe's Ballad Book says that song is "said to" be by Mr Douglas of Fingland, for Anne, a daughter of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, though "the Lady afterwards married Mr Ferguson of Craigdarroch". Lady John Scott told the editor Alfred Moffat that the tune was her own, and that she altered the second verse and wrote all of the third. The song's earliest known printing, without her name, is in The Vocal Melodies of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1838). Our arrangement is read from an early New York printing, with Jenny Lind on its cover, that names no composer or poet, in C, with four parts of our own. "Dee" is Scots for "die". This is the first two verses for 2 to 4 singers, slow and tender.

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