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10 Orchestral Manoeuvres: Burns on the Concert Platform, 1879–1959
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Published:February 2021
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As has been mapped by recent scholarship, Burns’s lyrics, and often the melodies associated with them, have inspired musicians since the 1780s to arrange, set and compose their own work. Much has been written on the musical settings in Burns’s early song collections for Johnson and Thomson; some work has been done on Schumann’s lieder with texts by Burns; little attention has so far been given to the many orchestral depictions of Burns’s poems and songs. This chapter examines the creation and performance history of a small set of these works. It begins with Alexander Campbell Mackenzie's late-1800s orchestral rhapsodies, featuring key songs and tunes associated with Burns, a compositional process repeated in 1959 with Serge Hovey's Robert Burns Rhapsody, created in the USA and premiered in Berlin. Between these dates, Burns's major poem 'Tam o' Shanter' inspired in quite different ways three key British composers – Mackenzie and his younger Scots contemporary Learmont Drysdale, and England's Malcolm Arnold – revealing its attractiveness to the world of programmatic orchestral music. The chapter explores how Burns's musical influence went beyond his songs and melodies – and beyond Scotland's borders.
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