Opis: Scots Folk Song (Classic Reprint) - Kennedy-Fraser Marjory

Excerpt from Scots Folk Song

Lowland Scots Song, although tonally probably a branch, an off-shoot, of the Scoto-Celtic music-lore of the Scots Highlands and Islands, has yet, in feeling, much that is akin to the Saxon. Some years since, after giving a lecture-recital on Schumann's songs, I remember groping in my mind for a like impression, for something that was familiar and yet eluded me; and I discovered in the end that the familiar emotional atmosphere for which I was seeking was that of our own Lowland Scots Song. Scotland's Celtic nature with a blend of the Saxon, and Schumann's Saxon with a dash of the more easterly Slav, show much of the same indoorness, domesticity of emotion, qualities that contrast with the fiercer passion and wind-and-wave intoxication of feeling characteristic of much Highland and Island lore. Not that the perfervidum Scotorum is awanting in Lowland song, but just that there is a fiercer blast of Scots passion in the Highland than in the Lowland lore.

Our young people who take up the study of their country's songs should know that Scotland had for long a powerful romantic influence on the mind of Europe. Bishop Percy's Reliques, which awakened European interest in the romantic ballad and produced German imitations, recoiled again on our own Walter Scott, whose work for long fed the flame of romance that lit up all the arts of Europe.

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Szczegóły: Scots Folk Song (Classic Reprint) - Kennedy-Fraser Marjory

Nazwa: Scots Folk Song (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Kennedy-Fraser Marjory
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330407639
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 30
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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