- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: Scotland – Robert E Spilman, Robert Burns
- Key: A flat Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: staves: ABACDEAC – song: AB
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti ti | ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/a ti ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
- Pitches: advanced: so la ti do re mi fa fi so -
extended range
- Intervals: advanced: so/do (P4), do/mi (M3),
la/do\la (m3), mi/so8 (m3), descending tonic arpeggio so\mi\do, la/fa\la (M6), fa\so (M7),
so/ti (M3), re/so\re (A4) tritone, re\ti (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, vocal slurs, raised subdominant (fi), fermatas, natural sign, key center A flat, walking quarter notes
- Key Words: world geography: Ayrshire, Scotland, murmuring, stock-dove, glen, thorny den, lapwing, forbear, slumbering, rills, woodlands, primrose, oft, wanton, flocks, contractions: thro (through), mark’d, (marked), ev’ning (evening)
A lyrical poem from 1791 by Robert Burns describing the Afton Water in Ayrshire, Scotland and set to music by James E Spilman in 1837, under the title Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.
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