Highland King
Little is known of the earliest history of the Lute in Scotland, though it was clearly an important instrument for centuries before the first lute manuscripts appeared. Crusaders, for example, returned from the East with lutes, among other musical instruments. As early as the thirteenth century, and for centuries thereafter, there were frequent references to the "tinkling" and the "melodious sound" of the "jolie lute" in Scottish poetry, and poets always included it in inventories of then fashionable instruments. Joyful, doleful, even diabolical - all of the many moods of the lute inspired Scottish poets over the years, suggesting it was an instrument with which the educated classes were intimately familiar - Kevin Bazzan
Tracks
- I choys to ly my lon
- Blew riben
- Ladi ly nier mee
- Our last good night
- Generall Leslys godnight
- In ane inch I warrant
- Untitled
- Maggae Hamfor
- Katherines Bairdie
- Tweedsyde
- Cutte spoon and tree ladie
- The canaries - The old way
- I wish I were where Helen lyes
- The highland king
- Port Athol
- I love my love, in secret
- Jockie leaped over the dyke
- Through the wood Laudie
- Lilt milne
- Da miche manum
- Ruthueins Lilt
- Fair and Louky
- Doun in yon banks
- My Lady Binnis lilt
- A Scotts tune
- Where Will our goodman lye
- The newest scotts measure
- Sweet Willie
- I never New, I loved the
- When she came in, she bobbed
- Simon brodie
- Mary Betons Row
- Current Tried
- Over the Dyke Davie
- The horsemans Port
- If thou wert my own thing
- A gigge
- The more discreet, the wellcomer
- The lady Binnes lilt
- Tarphicken
- The New Highland ladie
- Da mihi manum
