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Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon, sung by the soprano, in G, from D4 to E5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries the tune, slow and smooth, many of its words sung over two notes, most often on G, down to its low D, as on the first word of each verse, "Ye" and "Oft", and up to its top E only in the fifth and sixth lines: on "my", "warbling" and "flowering" in verse 1 and on "lightsome", "a" and "thorny" in verse 2.

Range
D4 to E5
Key
G
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About Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon

Words: Robert Burns (printed 1792)

Tune: "The Caledonian Hunt's Delight", by James Miller, fashioned into a tune by Stephen Clarke (printed 1792; sung here as G. F. Graham printed it in 1849)

Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon is Robert Burns's song of a broken heart by the river Doon. Its earliest known printing is in 1792, in the fourth volume of James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, whose index credits the music to "Mr James Millar Writer in Edinr.": in Scotland, a writer was a lawyer. Burns later told how the organist Stephen Clarke, "partly by way of joke", told Miller "to keep to the black keys of the harpsichord, and preserve some kind of rhythm, and he would infallibly compose a Scots air"; Clarke shaped the result into this tune. We sing Burns's words as Johnson printed them, to the tune as G. F. Graham printed it in 1849, in the second volume of his Songs of Scotland, in G, with four parts of our own: both verses, for 2 to 4 singers, slow and tender.

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