[Download] (Kindle) Songs of Gaelic Scotland
By Anne Lorne Gillies
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
