The Banks O'Doon
The banks o'Doon or Ye banks and braes o 'Bonnie Doon (German "the banks of the Doon ") is a Scottish folk song ( Traditional ). The text is by Robert Burns .
Emergence
The genesis of the song is described in a letter from Robert Burns to the Scottish musician George Thomson from November 1794.
The melody comes from the amateur musician and clerk of the Edinburgh registry office James Miller and the musician Stephen Clarke. During a discussion on the beauty of Scottish songs, Miller expressed a desire to write one himself. Clarke replied half jokingly that all you had to do was press the black keys on the keyboard and keep a certain rhythm. Miller, who took this advice literally, composed a rudimentary melody within a few days, which Clarke then brought into its final form with a pentatonic scale. A copy of the melody was passed on to Niel Gow , who published it in his song collection A Collection of Strathspey Reels in 1788 under the title The Caledonian Hunt's Delight .
Burns sent his poem to music publisher James Johnson in 1791 with a request to find a suitable melody. Johnson suggested The Caledonian Hunt's Delight , provided that two syllables were added to every other verse. Burns then revised his original version, which then appeared in Johnson's song collection Scots Musical Museum in 1792 .
Edits
The melody served as the starting point for the piece Phule Phule Dhole Dhole from Rabindranath Tagore's opera Kal Mrigaya (later part of the opera Valmiki-Pratibha ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ James Currie: The Works of Robert Burns , Vol. 4, p. 196. W. Davies, London 1813
- ^ Allan Cunningham: The Works of Robert Burns, pp. 409 f. Charles Daly, London 1840
- ↑ Biswajit Sinha: Encyclopaedia of Indian Theater Vol. 5 (Rabindranath Tagore), Part 1, p. 100. Raj, Delhi 2003, ISBN 81-86208-27-5 ; Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, p. 164. University of California Press, Berkeley 1989, ISBN 0-520-06946-3