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Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns (Hardcover)
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Twenty Most Favourite Songs of Burns (Hardcover)
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Fortunate is the man who has been able to realise his childhood
dreams: this beautiful book is the result of Andrew Winton's long
cherished dream - 'to pass on some of the pleasures I got from
Burn's songs.' As a child, he had the North Lanarkshire moors as a
playground, listening to the calls and singing of the birds, lying
in beds of wild thyme and heathers beside cool, clear burns - while
at school, he was taught to recite the poems of Robert Burns,
finding that 'old Scottish airs came naturally to me.' Winton
describes his emotions while playing the simple melodies on his
violin. 'I had a great desire to pass on some of the pleasure I got
from his songs. To do this, I would lay aside the cold hard print
of the many books of his works and I would try to develop a hand of
write to suit the subjects.' There is an uncanny resemblance about
the way Burns went about composing his songs (revealed in a letter
from Burns included in the book) and the manner in which Andrew
Winton was inspired to present his book. Burns describes how he
would 'look out for objects in Nature around me that are in unison
and harmony with the cogitations of my fancy and workings of my
bosom'. One has only to observe the harmony between the words and
the watercolours to appreciate how similar was the creative process
working through Andrew Winton as he painted the illustrations and
penned the words, veritably ...'the beauty of speech made visible
by the art of the hand...' In addition to the words and music,
there are notes on the lasses to whom the songs were written, and
the pages are decorated with delicate watercolours of the
countryside flowers and grasses which inspired Burns. Among the
favourite songs included are Ae Fond Kiss, Afton Water, Green Grows
the Rushes O, Johnny Anderson My Jo, The Red Red Rose, Mary
Morrison and Auld Lang Syne. Not only is the music included but the
book is designed to open out flat so that it may be played as
Andrew Winton has done so many times. His careful research and
dedicated craftsmanship have produced a book no true lover of Burns
can resist.
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