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‘Bonnie Wood of Craigie-Lea’

‘Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigie-Lea’ was typical of the kind of compositions in the early nineteenth century designed essentially for private use during intimate social occasions—to be sung to the accompaniment of the pianoforte. Styled in the form of a traditional song, it focused on a pleasing union of melody and Scottish poetry. The music of ‘Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigie-Lea’ is typical of many Scottish and Irish ‘folk’ airs being widely disseminated at the time in printed music editions, harmonised or arranged with piano accompaniment. The song was first published in 1818 and reprinted in numbers of anthologies of Scottish songs of the period. By the last decade of the nineteenth century, it was represented in John Greig’s monumental work, Scots Minstrelsie (view image).

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