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Thread #126465   Message #3768090
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
25-Jan-16 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: Poems set to music
Subject: RE: Poems set to music
Well as it's Burns' Night, can I just mention that Robert Burns is not known to have written many tunes, but he had an ear for good ones to snaffle up to set his poems to, or some were set to music later by others: some of those we sing now, of course, and NOT to the earlier tunes he used. He did play the fiddle which is why some of them have that challenging octave-and-a-half range!