{"product_id":"the-modern-scottish-minstrel-volume-6-gb-22229","title":"The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 6","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 6.\r - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs if pointing to a condition of primeval happiness, Poetry has been the\r\nfirst language of nations. The Lyric Muse has especially chosen the land\r\nof natural sublimity, of mountain and of flood; and such scenes she has\r\nonly abandoned when the inhabitants have sacrificed their national\r\nliberties. Edward I., who massacred the Minstrels of Wales, might have\r\nspared the butchery, as their strains were likely to fall unheeded on\r\nthe ears of their subjugated countrymen. The martial music of Ireland is\r\na matter of tradition; on the first step of the invader the genius of\r\nchivalric song and melody departed from Erin. Scotland retains her\r\nindependence, and those strains which are known in northern Europe as\r\nthe most inspiriting and delightful, are recognised as the native\r\nminstrelsy of Caledonia. The origin of Scottish song and melody is as\r\ndifficult of settlement as is the era or the genuineness of Ossian.\r\nThere probably were songs and music in Scotland in ages long prior to\r\nthe period of written history. Preserved and transmitted through many\r\ngenerations of men, stern and defiant as the mountains amidst which it\r\nwas produced, the Minstrelsy of the North has, in the course of\r\ncenturies, continued steadily to increase alike in aspiration of\r\nsentiment and harmony of numbers.\nThe spirit of the national lyre seems to have been[Pgxii] aroused during the\r\nwar of independence,[1] and the ardour of the strain has not since\r\ndiminished. The metrical chronicler, Wyntoun, has preserved a stanza,\r\nlamenting the calamitous death of Alexander III., an event which proved\r\nthe commencement of the national struggle.\nThe antiquity of these lines has been questioned, and it must be\r\nadmitted that the strain is somewhat too dolorous for the times. Stung\r\nas they were by the perfidious dealings of their own nobility, and the\r\nruthless oppression of a neighbouring monarch, the Minstrels sought\r\nevery opportunity of astirring the patriotic feelings of their\r\ncountrymen, while they despised the efforts of the enemy, and\r\nanticipated in enraptured pans their defeat. At the siege of Berwick in\r\n1296, when Edward I. began his first expedition against Scotland, the\r\nScottish Minstrels ridiculed the attempt of the English monarch to\r\ncapture the place in some lines which have been preserved. The ballad of\r\n\"Gude Wallace\" has been ascribed to this age; and if scarcely bearing\r\nthe impress of such antiquity, it may have had its prototype in another\r\nof similar strain. Many songs, according to the elder Scottish\r\nhistorians, were composed and sung among the common people both in\r\ncelebration of Wallace and King Robert Bruce.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 22229 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Rogers, Charles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 3, 2007 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Rogers, Charles, 1825-1890 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rogers, Charles,1825-1890 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218023841949,"sku":"gb-22229-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/22229.jpg?v=1671463590","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-modern-scottish-minstrel-volume-6-gb-22229","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}