Trombone and piano -
Advanced
SKU:
CY.CC2144
Composed by
Nick Francis.
Contemporary tonal. Full
score & set of parts.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2144).
The Skye Boat
Song, among the most
popular of all Scottish
folk tunes, deals with
the flight of Bonnie
Prince Charlie (Charles
Edward Stewart) from
Scotland to the Isle of
Skye in 1746, after
having been defeated on
Culloden Moor by the
English Army of King
George II. The present
setting, for either Tenor
or Bass Trombone and
Piano, is mostly lyrical
and passes through a
series of episodes that
evoke watery images in
various ways. A stormy
episode which
superimposes a more
martial tune (relying
heavily on the familiar
scotch snappy rhythm)
against a variation of
the original folk tune
leads to brief quotations
from Mendelssohn's
Hebrides overture (the
Isle of Skye is part of
the group of islands
known as the Hebrides)
before a short
recapitulation of the
theme.
