Annotation:Valley of Silence (The)
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VALLEY OF SILENCE. Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed as an “Elegy” by Biography:J. Scott Skinner [1], and printed in his Harp and Claymore Collection (1904), arranged for violin and piano by F. Efckmann. The music was composed to go with a poem by James Mackintosh, entitled “Napoleon, or The Valley of Silence.” The melody was not meant to be sung to the words, but was rather an atmospheric accompaniment.
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Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 65. Skinner (Harp and Claymore Collection), 1904; pp. 8-9. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), p. 39.
Recorded sources: Olympic 6151, William MacPherson "Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music" (1978). Tartan Tapes CDTT1004, Paul Anderson – “Heat the Hoose” (1998).
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