Annotation:Winter Nights are Long
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WINTER NIGHTS ARE LONG. Scottish, Air. The name "Winter Nights are Long," presumably a song, appears in a 1721 poetic address by poet Allan Ramsay addressed to the Edinburgh Musical Society, a group of gentleman vocal and instrumental performers. Ramsay remarks on the mixture of classical and popular music played by the group:
While vocal tubes and consort strings engage
To speak the dialect of the Golden Age,
Then you whose symphony of souls proclaim
Your kin to heaven, add to your country’s fame,
And show that musick may have so good fate
In Albion’s glens, as Umbria’s green retreat:
And with Corelli’s soft Italian song
Mix Cowden Knows, and Winter Nights are long.
