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My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose: alto part

The alto part of My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose in C, from B3 to B4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words a third or a sixth under the tune nearly four fifths of the time, most often on E, then F, rising to its top B at the end of a line, as on "June!" and "I;" in verse 1, and on the "And" that follows "I;" and "awhile!", and dipping to its low B, first on "like" in "O, my love is like".

Range
B3 to B4
Key
C
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About My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose

Words: Robert Burns (1794)

Tune: traditional Scottish, "Low down in the Broom", as printed by R. A. Smith

My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose is Robert Burns's love song. Its earliest known printing, in Peter Urbani's Selection of Scots Songs (1794), has Urbani's own tune. The fifth volume of James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, which libraries date to 1796, sets it to a strathspey called Major Graham, with an "Old Set" too. By the late 1840s, G. F. Graham could write that it was "now invariably sung to a modern version of 'Low down in the broom'", the tune we sing. Our arrangement is read from R. A. Smith's Scotish Minstrel of the early 1820s, which prints Burns's words to that air, in C, with four parts of our own over Smith's piano chords. This is two verses for 2 to 4 singers, slow and tender, each ending on Smith's repeated lines, "'Till a' the seas gang dry" and "Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile".

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