Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
From: GUEST,Sandra Nesbit Money
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 11:21 AM

I am searching for the "Banks 'O Loch Lomond" sheet music. I thought I had it with your subject heading. Please contact me if you have a way to find the music. Thanks Sandy

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 04:02 PM

Sandy, you can get sheet music for it at the Lester Levy site click here

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 10:17 PM

Sandy:

You can find three differing sets of words for Loch Lomond on the DT database,  here   here  and  here: unless, of course, you'd like some practice in searching the database; in which case, go to the box labelled Digitrad and Forum Search at the top left of the page and type in "loch lomond".

There is a midi file of the tune that you can listen to, but I can't help you with the written music at the moment.  I'm sure someone else will be able to point you the right way.  I failed miserably to find it at the Levy site:  could you perhaps give us a more specific URL, Alice?  

The song, incidentally, is attributed to Lady Scott (née Alicia Spottiswoode), 1810-1900.

Sheila:  Hamish Henderson is alive and kicking, and celebrated his 80th Birthday last November.  Greentrax will be releasing a CD of the concert in the spring.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 12:06 AM

Sandy:

I neglected to mention that a search of Digitrad would also turn up a number of threads discussing Loch Lomond.   A particularly interesting one is    here.    It is of course not unlikely that Lady Scott re-worked an existing song (not necessarily Jacobite), just as Burns re-wrote songs that he picked up, making them more "polished" (i.e. "literary").

You can also find an arranged version of the tune -in midi format- at Lesley Nelson's site,   here.  

It would also be worth looking in your local Public Library, if you have one; it's probably not as old a song as a lot of people think, but it is very widely known, and widely published.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 12:10 AM

Malcolm, sorry, I thought I had found it there before, but I could not locate it again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 08:50 PM

Hamish Henderson, songwriter, poet, collector academic, and the first translator of Gramsci into English is not only alive and well, he is booked for the 34th National (English) Folk Festival on 7th-9th April, at Sutton Bonington near Loughborough.

The 51st Highland Division's farewell to Sicily is in the DT, and so is his FREEDOM COME ALL YE