The world's best music Volume 2 ; famous songs and those who made them - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...the departure of the Marquis of Huntly for the continent with his regiment, in 1799. Ritson, in his "North Country Chorister," printed in 1802, has this song under the title "The New Highland Lad." He says, "The song has been lately introduced upon the stage.f l It was originally 'The Bells of Scotland,' but was revised by Mrs. Jordan, who altered the words and sang them to a tune of her own, which superseded the old air." When Charles Mackay and Sir Henry Rowley Bishop were arranging old English airs, this song came under discussion. Mackay says, "The Blue Bells of Scotland is almost invaribly spoken of as a Scottish air; but Sir Henry found reason to suspect that it was English, and urged me to write new words to it, to dispossess, if possible, the old song of Mrs. Jordan. He was induced to form this opinion by receiving from Mr. Fitzgerald,'a Sussex tune' to a song commencing: 'Oh, I have been aforester this many a long day.' Three or four bars of the melody were almost identical with the second bar of 'The Blue Bells of Scotland,' but as the remainder bore no resemblance to that popular favorite, and the whole tune was so beautiful that it was well worth preserving, I so far complied with Sir Henry's wish as to write 'The Magic Harp' to Mr. Fitzgerald's kind contribution to our work. Sir Henry wrote under date of the 22d of October, 1852, 'I am strongly of opinion that when Mrs. Jordan composed "The Blue Bells of Scotland" she founded her air upon that rescued from oblivion for us by Mr. Fitzgerald,--or rather that she originally ntended to sing it to that tune, but finding some parts of it too high for her voice, which was of a very limited jompass, she altered them, and the air became that of "The Blue...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236415701
- ISBN 13 9781236415707
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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