For the anniversary of the landing of King William the third, on 5th November, 1688
(Tune: Hey Tutty Tatey)
| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Loyalist |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | A4 B4 (+ var) |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 8v 8l |
| TIME SIGNATURE | C |
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♯♯ |
| TONAL CENTRE | D |
| INCIPIT | GEGAGC'AC'AGAC' |
| GENRE | Ballad |
| TEXT SOURCE | Robert Young, The Orange minstrel, or Ulster melodist: consisting of historical songs and poems (Londonderry: Sentinel Office, 1832), pp.47-50 |
| TUNE SOURCE | O Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes, 4 vols. (1804-16), Vol I |
| FIRST LINE | Britons brave forever more |
| NOTATED INCIPIT | |
| This song is set to the air of 'Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled', a song which is itself set to the older tune 'Hey Tuttie Tatie'. The air became the theme for the final movement of Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, Op. 46 for violin and orchestra (1880). The tune provided here is the first known Irish printing from O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (1804-16), several volumes of which were published in the first decade of the nieteenth century. It was previously published in Scotland in the second book of McGibbon's Scots Tunes (1746, p.55), and the third volume of Oswald's The Caldeonian Pocket Companion (1751, p.13). | |
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