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NAE ORDINARY GUEST’S FAVOURITE SONGS Choose your favourite five songs from the list below and email to : offi[email protected] Songs by Robert Burns Contemporary Songs 1. Ae Fond Kiss 33. He Ain’t Heavy, He’s my Brother 2. Ye Banks and Braes 34. Amazing Grace 3. My Heart’s in the Highlands 35. Caledonia 4. Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes 36. Jolene 5. Aye Walkin’ o 37. Fly Lady Fly 6. John Anderson my Jo 38. New Shoes 7. Charlie, He’s my Darling 39. 500 Miles 8. Rantin Rovin Robin 40. Raindrops Keep Falling on my 9. Leezie Lindsay Head 10. My Love is Like A Red Red Rose 41. Can’t Buy Me Love 11. The Deil’s Awa with the Exciseman 42. All You Need is Love 12. Willie Stewart 43. Touch the Sky 13. Sweet Afton 44. You Can’t Always Get What You 14. Auld Lang Syne Want 15. Corn Rigs 45. Star Spangled Banner 16. Green Grow The Rashes 46. Blowin’ in the Wind 17. A Man’s A Man for a’ That 47. Dream, Dream Dream 18. Kiliiecrankie 48. Here, There and Everywhere 19. O Whistle, and I’ll Come to ye, my 49. I’ll Never Fall in Love Again Lad 50. The Look of Love 20. Rattlin, Roarin Willie 51. Close to You 21. A Parcel o’ Rogues 52. Walk On By 22. Tam Glen 53. Willie’s gane tae Melville Castle 23. The White Cockade 54. You Were Always on my Mind 24. The Lea-rig 55. What The World Needs Now 25. Ye Jacobites By Name 56. Love Can Build a Bridge 26. Selkirk Grace 57. Black Horse and The Cherry Tree 27. Scots Wha Hae 58. Gaelic Mouth Music 28. My Heart is Sair 59. Who Would Have Thought? 29. Bonnie Wee Thing 60. I Won’t Give Up 30. Duncan Grey 61. Stuck in the Middle With You 31. Bonnie Jean 62. Greensleeves 32. Comin’ Through the Rye 63. Time in a Bottle 64. From A Distance 65. Piano Man 66. Marianne 67. Hail to the Chief 68. The Immortal Memory 69. King of the Road 70. Country Roads 71. Midnight Train to Georgia 72. The Sky’s in Love With You 73. My Sweet Lord 74. Arthur’s Theme 75. Help 76. Blackbird 77. I Saw Her Standing There 78. Because (The Beatles) 79. Boy Blue 80. I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles 81. With a Little Help From my Friends 82. Let the River Run 83. The Kist 84. America (Simon and Garfunkel) 85. The Crossing Over 86. Mingulay Boat Song 87. Wild Mountain Thyme 88. Breakaway (Gallagher and Lyle) 89. Pastures of Plenty 90. Weaver of the Dreams 91. Caravan 92. Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen 93. It’s Inverness 94. Whatever’s Written in your Heart 95. Here Comes the Sun 96. The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns 97. Tak aff yer Dram 98. Bhearr mar a bha mi (Beer man), 99. Na hu o ho (Nach truagh leat mi st'un Eirinn) 100.Gie her a Haggis .

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1. August Angellier in Robert Burns, La Vie, Les Oeuvres, 2 Vols (Paris
Notes CHAPTER 1 THE EARLY PERIOD: BURNS' INTUITIVE USE OF SCOTTISH TRADITION 1. August Angellier in Robert Burns, La Vie, Les Oeuvres, 2 vols (Paris, 1983) pointed to this when he said: 'But underneath this scholarly poetry there existed a popular poetry which was very abundant, very vigorous, very racy and very original'. See especially p. 14 of Jane Burgoyne's selected translation from Angellier in the Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, 1969. Other portions of the translation appeared in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973. 2. J. De Lancey Ferguson (ed.) The Letters of Robert Burns, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931), 1: 106, no. 125. Burns adopted a superior tone here in keeping with the accepted pose of the eighteenth-century man of letters. All references to Burns' letters are to Ferguson's edition. Only letter numbers will be given when the citation appears in the text proper. 3. Most critics and students of Burns take some stance towards his relationship with previous work. Hans Hecht, Robert Burns: The Man and His Work, 2nd rev. ed. (London: William Hodge & Company, 1950), p. 29, suggests that Burns was the culmination of a tradition, but he speaks of a literary rather than a cultural inheritance. 4. See T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (London: Methuen, 1950), pp. 47-59. 5. Angellier earlier suggested this division and I agree with him that Burns' work prior to Edinburgh was dominated by depiction of the world around him. After Edinburgh, Angellier indicates that Burns relied less on the specific incidents and more on general sentiments.
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Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2008 Imagining Scotland in Music: Place, Audience, and Attraction Paul F. Moulton Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC IMAGINING SCOTLAND IN MUSIC: PLACE, AUDIENCE, AND ATTRACTION By Paul F. Moulton A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2008 The members of the Committee approve the Dissertation of Paul F. Moulton defended on 15 September, 2008. _____________________________ Douglass Seaton Professor Directing Dissertation _____________________________ Eric C. Walker Outside Committee Member _____________________________ Denise Von Glahn Committee Member _____________________________ Michael B. Bakan Committee Member The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii To Alison iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In working on this project I have greatly benefitted from the valuable criticisms, suggestions, and encouragement of my dissertation committee. Douglass Seaton has served as an amazing advisor, spending many hours thoroughly reading and editing in a way that has shown his genuine desire to improve my skills as a scholar and to improve the final document. Denise Von Glahn, Michael Bakan, and Eric Walker have also asked pointed questions and made comments that have helped shape my thoughts and writing. Less visible in this document has been the constant support of my wife Alison. She has patiently supported me in my work that has taken us across the country. She has also been my best motivator, encouraging me to finish this work in a timely manner, and has been my devoted editor, whose sound judgement I have come to rely on.
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The Saltire 2.14
No 1 Message from the Chieftain February 2014 Another great Burns Supper Our recent Burns Supper provided a clear reason why it is the most popular event on the Society’s calendar of events. There was something for everyone. The Bard of Ayr was well and truly remembered through the toasts in the formal part of the evening . Ken Suttie addressed the haggis, I delivered the Immortal Memory, Michael Haines gave the toast Tae the Lassies and Laura Grinham responded on behalf of the lassies. "Alba Gu Brath" Then we had three wonderful singers from the floor . young COMMITTEE 2013-2014 Jane Jackson, Jim McGuire and Eleanor Love . and Sandy Milligan gave an excellent rendition of the famous Robert Burns Chieftain poem, Holy Willie’s Prayer . Brian McMurdo Sandy even made-up and dressed-up for the part! Great fun. Immediate Past Chieftain As well as providing the dance music for the ceilidh part of the Ken Suttie evening, the Heel n Toe Band also gave us a song or two (the band said it was one of the best events they had played at). Vice Chieftain Doris LaValette I should mention here that the Burns Supper saw our new Honorary Piper, Alex Foster, of the Perth Metro Pipe Band, Hon Secretary play for us for the first time during pre-dinner drinks and when leading the Haggis party. Darian Ferguson And the whole event was held together with great aplomb by Hon Treasurer our MC duo, Diana Paxman and Reggie McNeill. Diana Paxman Of course, there wouldn’t have been anything for them to hold Members together without the great work put in by the event manager, Cameron Dickson Vice-Chieftain Doris LaValette.
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Lasting Inspiration of Robert Burns | Scotland.Org 1/18/21, 11:55 AM
Lasting inspiration of Robert Burns | Scotland.org 1/18/21, 11:55 AM HOME <HTTPS://WWW.SCOTLAND.ORG> > FEATURES <HTTPS://WWW.SCOTLAND.ORG/FEATURES> > Lasting inspirationLASTING INSPIRATION OF ROBERT ....of Robert Burns 23 Apr 2015 8 min read What is it about Robert Burns? Not even Shakespeare is remembered so personally with an annual birthday celebration. What is it about Robert Burns? Not even Shakespeare is remembered so personally with an annual birthday celebration. It's in the spirit of the lasting inspiration of Scotland's National Poet that we invite you to celebrate Burns Night. We've outlined the elements of a traditional Burns Supper below, but invite you to consider giving it a modern twist by incorporating a contemporary menu or playing modern interpretations of Burns songs. Whisky, of course, is a mandatory part of any Burns Supper and eminent whisky writer Charlie MacLean has given recommendations to accompany both the traditional and the nouvelle suppers. IMMORTAL MEMORY He spoke from the heart to the heart. He makes you laugh, he makes you cry. Note the change to the present tense. For that's https://www.scotland.org/features/lasting-inspiration-of-robert-burns Page 1 of 10 Lasting inspiration of Robert Burns | Scotland.org 1/18/21, 11:55 AM the point. There's something immortal about Burns: his words, his melodies, his humanity, his spirit. Scottish artist Steven Campbell sees parallels between Burns and contemporary rock superstars like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen and at an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2000, Campbell portrayed Burns wearing Armani suits and looking very hip.
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The Influence of Jacobite Coding on Robert Burns's Poetry. (2014) Directed by Dr
EUDY, VIRGINIA BLAIRE, M.A. “Disturb not her Dream:” The Influence of Jacobite Coding on Robert Burns's Poetry. (2014) Directed by Dr. Anne Wallace. 33 pp. Robert Burns has collected many personas throughout literary history. Known separately as a political satirist, bawdy poet, and romantic bard, Burns is often attributed with only one of these identities at a time. Many critics seem to ignore the importance of viewing Burns holistically. By unifying Burns’s reputations we can elicit a deeper meaning from his lesser known works. Furthermore, by applying the lens of Jacobite coding, a form of communication often used during the Jacobite Movement (1688-1745), to his less overtly political love songs “Afton Water” and “Ae Fond Kiss,” we as an audience can better understand Burns’s unified identity. Through an extensive exploration of Jacobite lore and imagery in the love songs, I will demonstrate Burns’s capacity for fostering various readings in the same source. More importantly, by establishing these sign posts we can continue to explore Burns’s other works in order to better unify his multiple reputations and gain a deeper knowledge of his 18th century audience’s reactions. i EUDY, VIRGINIA BLAIRE, M.A. Neither Black nor White: Gray’s Liminal Pastoral. (2014) Directed by Dr. Jennifer Keith. 31 pp. Throughout Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” the speaker applauds the poor for their “heroic” suffering. As a poem sentimentalizing the poor, Marxist critics have often attacked the speaker’s motives and his ability to identify with the poor he idealizes.
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A Primer of Burns
.VCj A PRIMER OF BURNS A PRIMER OF BURNS BY WILLIAM A. CRAIGIE, B.A. ASSISTANT AND LECTURER IN TII&-CMIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1896 RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY. PREFACE THESE pages are mainly intended to supply the reader of Burns with such facts concerning his life and works, as are most necessary for the understanding of his poetry. These facts have been chiefly derived from the editions the latter's by Chambers and Scott Douglas ; arrangement of the poems has also been followed in tracing the development of the poet's work. The bibliography has been selected from various sources, and it is hoped that no work of importance has been omitted. CONTENTS LIFE CHAP. PAGE i. AYRSHIRE I ii. EDINBURGH . 25 in. DUMFRIESSHIRE 42 WORKS iv. POEMS 53 v. POEMS (continued} 86 vi. SONGS 108 vn. LETTERS 132 vni. LANGUAGE . 155 BIBLIOGRAPHY 167 A PRIMER OF BURNS CHAPTER I. X AYRSHIRE. THE life of Robert Burns falls naturally into three periods. The first of these covers the years spent in his various Ayrshire homes, down to his twenty-eighth the second includes the two winters in year ; spent Edinburgh, the most brilliant period of his career, so the third far as worldly success and reputation go ; comprises the eight years in Nithsdale and Dumfries, in which he fell to some extent out of acquaintance with his older friends, and out of the notice of his country, only to become more famous in death. The family of Burnes, or Burness, belonged to Kincardineshire, where the poet's ancestors have been diligently traced back for several generations.
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Scottish Songs
SC O TTI SH S NG 0 O 4 , A SELECTI ON ogfi ‘rH E I I f : CH OI CE S T L YRI CS 01” SCO TLAN D OMPI ED AN D ARRAN G ED W ' H BRI E F N OTE S C L , U B Y 1 , / MARY CARLYLE AI FK EN ' A L LA N RA MSA Y fi lmmon A L L A N A N D M C M I C O . 1 8 7 4 R A E P EF C . T H E peculiar merits of the Songs of Scotland have so often been insisted upon, that little e a r emains for me here , exc pt to point out wh t my aim has been in adding one more to the r H r alr eady long list of p inted collections . ithe to compiler s have studied to have quantity r ather than quality ; there is not a suffi cient r e ex numbe of really xcellent Scottish Songs , ’ clusive Burn s s of , to fill more than a small volume ; so that the wheat has in few cases been r sepa ated from the chaff. I have inserted no song except such as I believed to be possessed of r r e eal me it ; and, at the same time, have chos n only those that have won their way to the hearts S r e -in of the cottish people , and dwelt the , ‘ e its lf a good test, for, as Goethe says , What has kept its place in the hearts of the people P RE FA CE .
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Robert Burns Taught by Steve Newman
Steve Newman Robert Burns at the Rosenbach: Song, Satire, and Scotland Feb-March 2017 Course Description: On the evening of January 25th, people from Edinburgh to Shanghai to Philadelphia gather to toast “the immortal memory” of Robert Burns. For he is not only Scotland’s national poet; his work has been translated into Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Esperanto, and a host of other languages. To discover the range and depth of the work that has established Burns as a poet of global significance, we will dive into a great deal of his poetry and a bit of his prose, drawing significantly on one of the world’s finest collection of his works--the Rosenbach’s. We will begin with Burns’ spectacular burst on to the scene in 1786, investigating the literary and political matrices that made it possible for this son of a short-lease farmer to become so celebrated so quickly, though not entirely on his own terms. We will then focus on his love and bawdy songs, considering how Burns draws on and transforms tradition in lyrics on affection and lust, and the codes of gender and sexuality that inform them. Next come his interventions in the politics of the nation, as he presents himself as a “Bardie” licensed to comment on a range of state and religious matters and navigates the electrified disputes of his time. We will conclude with some of his masterpieces— including Tam O’Shanter and Love and Liberty—and the ways his work gets circulated and Burns is enshrined by a series of critics and collectors, not least Dr.
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Burns Chronicle 2012
Burns Chronicle Summer 2012 Making Teacakes for your Thomas Tunnock Ltd., 34 Old Mill Road, Uddingston G71 7HH Tel: 01698 813551 Fax: 01698 815691 01387 262960 Tel: Printers, Dumfries. Email: [email protected] the enjoyment www.tunnock.co.uk Solway Offset Solway Offset 22208_OTM 297x210 1205.indd 1 12/05/2011 14:18 High quality fine wool neck tie THE BURNS FEDERATION1885 – 1985. James A Mackay. A comprehensive account of the history of the Burns Federation, published for the centenary. James Mackay traces the origins and development of the Burns movement over the years since the death of Robert Burns in 1796, with special reference to the Burns Federation. Manufactured in lightweight “Reiver” worsted wool Fourteen chapters covering in depth all aspects of Burns by Lochcarron appreciation and the Federation with detailed appendices. RRP £15.95, The Robert Burns World Federation From the Federation Office at the modest price of President 2011 - 2012, RBWF price £10.00Jim Shields £7.50 plus post and packaging. Burns Chronicle Summer 2012 SUMMER 2012 Contents Editorial ..............................................................................................................................2 No 7 in our series 20th C Burns Scholars, Robert D Thornton. Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina ..........................................................................3 Hamilton Paul: A Forgotten Hero. Clark McGinn .............................................................8 News of our Built Heritage ..............................................................................................13
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RBWF Burns Chronicle 1991
1991 The digital conversion of this Burns Chronicle was sponsored by Studies in Scottish Literature The digital conversion service was provided by DDSR Document Scanning by permission of the Robert Burns World Federation Limited to whom all Copyright title belongs. www.DDSR.com - BURNS .CHRONICLE 1991 BURNS CHRONICLE AND CLUB DIRECTORY Instituted 1891 WHOLE NUMBER 100 1991 PRICE: Paper £6.50, (Members £4.50). Published by the Bums Federation, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock. Contents JAMES ALEXANDER MACKAY 5 FROM THE EDITOR 6 TO ROBERT BURNS IN HEAVEN 8 THE BRIGS OF FORTH 9 BOOK REVIEWS 10 BURNS THE ENGLISH POET 16 OBITUARIES 17 A VERY HUMBLE PLACEMAN 20 THE BOWHILL PEOPLE'S BURNS CLUB 1940-1990 32 BRIDGING THE AGE GAP 34 THE FIRST TWINNING OF BURNS CLUBS 34 ROBERT BURNS AND THE BOSWELL CONNECTION 35 DR. JOHN MACKENZIE M.D. 37 THE MYSTERY SOLVED 43 THE TIMES O' BURNS 45 .JAMES HOGG ON ROBERT BURNS 51 THE WILLIAM WILL MEMORIAL LECTURE 72 FINNISH TRANSLATION OF BURNS 77 HOW OLD IS GREENOCK BURNS CLUB? 77 PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE 83 COMMITTEE GREENOCK BURNS CLUB 83 ROBERT BURNS AND THE RUTHWELL CROSS 84 WHISPERS OF GENIUS: EDGAR ALLAN POE AND ROBERT BURNS 94 TROTZ ALLEDEM UND ALLEDEM 102 AN AULD WEEOOW-WUMMAN BLETHERS 103 THE BURNS FEDERATION OFFICE BEARERS 105 LIST OF DISTRICTS 109 ANNUAL CONFERENCE REPORTS, YORK 1989 117 CLUB REPORTS 135 NUMERICAL LIST OF CLUBS ON THE ROLL 173 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS ON THE ROLL 201 4 JAMES ALEXANDER MACKAY Although I am not a Bums enthusiast myself I can fairly claim to have introduced your Editor to the Bums Movement.
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Auld Lang Syne!’
Book Notes: Reading in the Time of Coronavirus By Jefferson Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Andrew Roth ‘Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, And Auld Lang Syne!’ Admit it, at least once, but probably more often, on New Year’s Eve, with a glass of bubbly or some other strong libation in one hand, your other arm ’round your spouse, your best squeeze, or whomever might be at hand, you have raised that glass and sung (or at least hummed) the tune, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot/And auld lang syne!” And admit it, you may have done so without the faintest idea what you were saying. OK, maybe the faintest, since “auld” sounds like “old,” you know what “acquaintance” means, and you kind of intuit it has something to do with remembering old friends and the days long ago. But what does the rest of it mean? And why are you singing it? And where did it come from? It came from Scotland in 1788 when Robert Burns “sent the poem, ‘Auld Lang Syne’ to the Scots Musical Museum, indicating that it was an ancient song but that he’d been the first to record it on paper.” [1] Almost immediately, it became a Scottish tradition to sing on Hogmanay, the Scots’ word for the last day of the year – New Year’s Eve. The Scots, however, did not invent New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, obviously, are global celebrations that begin and end on different sides of the International Date Line. For Jeopardy! aficionados and patrons of Trivia Night at the Plymouth Tavern on State Street in Erie, Pennsylvania, where do New Year’s celebrations begin and end? Located in the central Pacific on the eastern side of the dateline, the Line Islands and Tonga are among the first places to celebrate the New Year and American Samoa, on its western side, among the last.
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Robert Burns in Other Tongues; a Critical
^S *&>• >n BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF iii^nrg W. Bags 1S9X .fjr/j.rjf:.. ikp/.v.fj... 9963 Cornell University Library PR4336.J12 Robert Burns in other tongues; a critical 3 1924 013 447 937 M ^ Cornell University VM Library The original of tliis bool< is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013447937 ROBERT BURNS IN OTHER TONGUES PUBLISHED BY JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS. GLASGOW, ^nbUshcrs to the Snibersitji). MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK" Loitdon^ • Sijnpkin, Hamilton and Co. Cainbridge^t Macinillan and Bowes, Edinburgh^ Dotiglas and Foulis. MDCCCXCVI. " , ROBERT BURNS IN OTHER TONGUES A Critical Review of the Translations of the Songs & Poems of Robert Burns i'- ii /; WILLIAM JACKS AUTHOR OF A TRANSLATION OF "NATHAN THE WISE ETC. Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons ^nblisheis to tite Stnibtrsits 1896 Ail rights reserved cc ! Jungst pflUckt' ich einen Wiesenstrauss, Trug ihn gedankenvoll nach Haus ; Da hatten, von der warmen Hand, Die Kronen sich alle zur Erde gewandt, Ich setzte sie in frisches Glas, Und welch ein Wunder war rair das Die Kopfchen hoben sich empor, Die Blatterstengel im grunen Flor, Und allzusammen so gesund, Als stiinden sie noch auf Muttergrund. So war mir's, als ich wundersam Main Lied in fremder Sprache vernahm. Goethe PREFACE. I WAS led into the present, task by seeing now and again in newspapers, reviews of foreign translations of the works of Robert Burns, and by occasionally meeting with specimens of these translations in my wanderings on the Continent.
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