"The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (Child 181, Roud 334) is a popular Scottish ballad, which may date from as early as the 17th century. The ballad touches on...
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a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the seventeenth-century ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray". She wrote: When I was a child...
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Donibristle (section The first house)
Donibristle was the scene of the killing of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, in 1592, which is remembered in the ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray". Around 1540...
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George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (redirect from George Gordon, 1st Marquess and 6th Earl of Huntly)
Donibristle in Fife, and stabbed the earl to death with his own hand. This outrage, which inspired the ballad The Bonnie Earl o' Moray, brought retribution on...
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Maid Marian (category Fictional characters introduced in the 16th century)
Fitzwalter", only child of the Earl of Huntingdon, is the Maid Marian In Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Child Ballad 150, perhaps dating to the 17th century), Maid...
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Dalgety Bay (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, which is remembered in the popular ballad The Bonnie Earl O' Moray. Towards the end of the 18th century, the village was destroyed...
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straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders—hence, Chevy Chase. The hunt is led by Percy, the English Earl of Northumberland...
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"Binnorie", "The Cruel Sister", "The Wind and Rain", "Dreadful Wind and Rain", "Two Sisters", "The Bonny Swans" and the "Bonnie Bows of London". The ballad...
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prediction to the Earl of Dunbar, but when there was no change in weather patterns discernible at the ninth hour, the Earl sent for the prophet to be...
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Tam Lin (section Popular recordings of the ballad)
Roxburgh, the Laird of Foulis, the Earl of Forbes, or the Earl of Murray. His name also varies between versions (Tam Lin being the most common) as Tom Line...
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Guy of Gisbourne (section Summary of the Child ballad)
(also spelled Gisburne, Gisborne, Gysborne, or Gisborn) is a character from the Robin Hood legends of English folklore. He first appears in "Robin Hood and...
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Trumpet Concerto (Musgrave) (category Music commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
for one or more of the artist's paintings. The fourth movement also features the traditional Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Moray" in a nod to Musgrave's...
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Barbara Allen (song) (redirect from The Ballad of Barbara Allen)
Scotland". digital.nls.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2021. "Bonnie Barbara Allan (VWML Song Index SN23862)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 7 February...
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YouTube Jim Moray - Long Lankin on YouTube "Compositions". Fleur de Bray Soprano. Retrieved 2 January 2018. "Lamkin: Versions & Variants Across the Northern...
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Battle of Harlaw (redirect from The Battle of Harlaw)
3 June 1415 that Euphemia should marry Thomas Dunbar, 3rd (6th) Earl of Moray but the papal commission would not have arrived before she surrendered her...
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Bonnie James Campbell or Bonnie George Campbell is Child ballad 210 (Roud 338). The ballad tells of a man who has gone off to fight, but only his horse...
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Marquess of Huntly (redirect from Earl of Huntly)
the guard of Holyrood before the discovery of treason. He went about clan feuds and started a private war, this inspired the ballad The Bonnie Earl O'...
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bonny, O; They rode till they came to the Earl of Casstle's house, And there they sang most sweetly, O. The Earl of Castle's lady came down, With the waiting-maid...
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"Yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in her arme, And I feir, I feir, my master deir, That we will cum to harme." O loth, o loth, The Scots lords...
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babie was found; At this bonnie babie's christning there was meikle joy and mirth, But bonnie Queen Jeanie lies cold in the earth. Six and six coaches...
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Child Ballads (redirect from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads)
of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The tunes of most of the ballads...
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Ronald Stevenson (category Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music)
from A 20th-Century Music Diary for piano) Variations and Theme ('The Bonnie Earl o' Moray') for cello and piano (1974) Recitative and Air: In Memoriam Shostakovich...
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London, and the culprit is the Earl of Oxford. The story of the Earl of Oxford was printed in the 17th-century. The last version is the Danish version...
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article: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 24 "Bonnie Annie" (Child 24, Roud 172) is a folk ballad recorded from the Scottish and...
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Babylon (ballad) (redirect from The Bonnie Banks o Fordie)
"Babylon" or "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie" is Child ballad 14, Roud 27. Mr. Motherwell gives a version under the title of Babylon; or, the Bonny Banks o' Fordie;...
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of Robin Hood. It dates from at the latest the 17th century, and possibly originating earlier, making it one of the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood...
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an Dualchais Kist O Riches". www.tobarandualchais.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2020. "Lord Rendal (Roud Folksong Index S182619)". The Vaughan Williams...
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(1995). "The Ship o' the Fiend". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 2021-02-23. Atkinson, David (1989). "Marriage and Retribution in 'James Harris (The Dæmon Lover)'"...
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Alan-a-Dale (category Fictional characters introduced in the 17th century)
Bing Crosby in the rat pack film Robin and the 7 Hoods. Robert O. Cornthwaite played Allan A. Dale, an accomplice to the supervillain The Archer, in season...
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And the wind has blawin' my plaid awa'. Now sin' ye've ask'd some things o' me, Blaw, blaw, blaw winds, blaw! It's right I ask as mony o thee, And the wind...
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