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The Skye Boat Song" (Roud 3772) is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh ("Cuckoo of the Tree"). [1] In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love , Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him.
Songs of the North: 14 songs including "Skye Boat Song"; "Leeze Lindsay"; "Weaving Song" and 11 others Voices and piano 1900–54 Bardic Edition [31] "Spoon River" Wind ensemble 1933 Folksong setting [5] "Stalt Vesselil" (Proud Vesselil) DFMS (a) Voice Solo piano 1951 Bardic Edition [31] "Stormy (Pumping Chanty)" Male voices 1907 Peters Edition ...
The Sweetheart Tree is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Mercury Records on September 30, 1965, [1] and included songs associated with Italy ("Arrivederci Roma"), France ("Clopin Clopant"), Ireland ("Danny Boy"), and Scotland ("The Skye Boat Song") as well as several selections, such as "I'll Close My Eyes" and "The Very Thought of You", from English composers.
For soprano or tenor, violin, organ, piano, harp, and contrabass ad libitum (1876) [Hymne à Sainte Cécile] "60 sacred songs." With organ or piano (1879) Miserere. Four-part. For soli, chorus, and organ ad libitum (1880) De profundis. For soli, chorus, and orchestra (1880) Version for voice and piano; L'hymne apostolique (1886) Quam dilecta ...
Harold Boulton in 1918. Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, CVO, CBE, JP (7 August 1859 [1] – 1 June 1935), son of Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet of Copped Hall, born in Charlton then part of Kent, was an English baronet, songwriter, and philanthropist, most famously author of the lyrics to the "Skye Boat Song".
A piper with the 4 SCOTS regiment playing the bagpipes Skye Boat Song performed by Pipe Band. Many associate Scottish folk music with the Great Highland Bagpipe, which has long played an important part in Scottish music. Although this particular form of bagpipe was developed exclusively in Scotland, it is not the only Scottish bagpipe.
"The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can also be played as a waltz, recalling the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Uist to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. "Come O'er the Stream Charlie" is a Scottish song whose theme is the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of ...
At the same time, with the development of related concerts running simultaneously in different parts of Britain, "Ye Spanish Ladies" was removed and replaced by the Welsh, Scottish and Irish songs, arranged by Bob Chilcott: "Ar Hyd y Nos", "The Skye Boat Song" and "Danny Boy", which have obscured Wood's original 'plot'. [3]