"Fair Eliza"

This year's Summit music comes from a piece called Fair Eliza, taken from volume II of "The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany" also known as the "Glen Collection." The book was printed in 1793 and contains a number of traditional songs from around the British Isles. Like many of the songs in this collection, Fair Eliza is transcribed as a single line of melody, presumably for a singer, as there's no other indication of chord charts or accompanying music for an instrumentalist. The piece is written in "Common Time" (4/4) and has an F# in the key signature, denoting G major as the starting key.

The original melody is pretty jaunty and changes key a great deal, which proved pretty impossible to translate sympathetically to a modern genre. So, we agreed that the best thing to do was to strip it back and focus on a couple of key themes. This then adapted nicely to a chillwave format.