Annotation:Sound of War from the Glen (The)

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SOUND OF WAR FROM THE GLEN, THE (Tha toirm anns a' ghleann). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "This air devolved to the editor's father through the same channel [Ed.- his father's gentlemen friends]. The words to it five a fine description of a peasant surveying the morning sky, and suddenly hearing, not the sounds of the stately pines, waving their branches in the wind, not the noise of the rushing torrents when a thaw commences, not the roar of distant thunder, or of the neighbouring waterfall, but the alarming clang of the enemy's approach to plunder and destroy" (Fraser).


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Printed sources : - Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 218, pp. 89 and 97 (two settings).

Recorded sources : - Laura Risk - "2000 Miles" (2004).




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