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Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Hardcover, Reprint)
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Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Hardcover, Reprint)
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Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of
song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together
music and lyrics from all over the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and
Islands - an extraordinary tradition that stretches in an unbroken
line from the bardic effusions of ancient times to the Celtic
fusions of today's vibrant young Gaelic musicians and poets. They
paint vivid pictures of life among ordinary Gaelic-speaking people,
their hopes, fears and preoccupations, births, deaths and
marriages, and personal reactions to the great changes that blew
their lives about. Everything about this book is designed to make
the songs accessible to musicians and general readers alike. Anne
Lorne Gillies provides a unique and informative introduction to
Gaelic tradition, simple yet highly sensitive musical
transcriptions, and English translations. She portrays the social
and historical background of the songs, offers her own commentary
on technical aspects of the music and its performance, and adds
carefully researched biographical notes and a full discography in
order to bring to life not only the people who composed the songs
but also some of the singers and musicians who have continued the
tradition into the twenty-first century. Songs of Gaelic Scotland
was winner of the 2006 Ruth Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize in
Folklore and Folklife.
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