Three Gaelic Songs (2017)

from Coronach (2021)

1. Saoil a Mhòr am Pòs Thu
2. Guma Slàn do na Gillean
3. Air Do Shlàinte Mhàiri ‘n Dotair

SATB/SAB

Duration:
5′

First performance:
5 November 2017
Blairgowrie Town Hall, Perth Gaelic Choir

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Score

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Programme note

Three Gaelic Songs are colourful arrangements of folksongs collected by folklorist, poet and collector Hamish Henderson (1919 – 2002) and form part of a larger project, Corranach (2021), involving Henderson and his work. The three songs are fast-slow-fast, with the outer songs settings of characteristic ‘mouth-music’ that were vocal works designed for dancing to. The middle song is more reflective and may have been a ‘waulking’ song sung by local women whilst beating newly woven tweed to soften it.

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