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Thread #12515   Message #2210924
Posted By: Jack Campin
07-Dec-07 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Flower of Scotland (Roy Williamson)
Subject: RE: Origin: Flower of Scotland
Incidentally the tune for "Flower of Scotland" is based on the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's opera "Nabucco". Given what that chorus is about, and its status as a pan-nationalist anthem across much of Europe in the decades after it was written, it seems quite plausible that the borrowing was intentional.