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Arrangement of Bonny Earl o' Moray

Illarane
in Choral, Vocal

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This is an arrangement of The Bonny Earl o' Moray I'm doing for a choir I run. I'm not entirely happy with a couple of the phrases, but considering the oddness of bits of the melody I did the best I could.

The composer of the original ballad is unknown, and I can't find the author of the lyrics, which is a shame, because it's quite the fantastic bit poetry.

The ballad itself is based on a true event; the murder of James Stewart, Earl of Moray, by the Earl of Huntly. It is also, interestingly enough, where the term mondegreen came from, arising from the fourth line of the song's first verse "And laid him on the green" - quite often misheard as "And Lady Mondegreen".

Anyway, this is bog standard SATB. I've not really gone for anything really outlandish, since it's folk music, and to go a bit Skriabin on it wouldn't be fair to the genre. :P

MIDI is attached; MP3 here.

Bonny Earl O' Moray-2007-07-17T0004BST.mid

Does it have lyrics? if you can post a pdf with the lyrics, that would be helpful. Thanks.

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Lyrics

Sorry; one thing I forgot to include. :D

  • 4 weeks later...

wow, sooooooooo lovely!!!! very nice job!

There are a few suggestions I would like to make, but can you post a score?
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