The Skye Boat Song", by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in the collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses, Project Gutenberg Conrad, Erin (27 July 2014). " Outlander: Opening Title Sequence – Wait, Is That It?". ThreeIfBySpace.net . Retrieved 12 October 2021. Bear McCreary adapted the song as the opening titles of the 2014 TV series Outlander, sung by Raya Yarbrough, changing the text of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone" (1892) to " Lass" to fit the story. [3] [13]

Music - The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin". ucdchoralscholars.ie . Retrieved 12 October 2021. The bagpipes and the Scottish and Celtic musical influence is very much rooted in Jamie and Claire," McCreary explained to Mashable. "That will always be their sound. They could go to Mars, and I'll still use the penny whistle or the uilleann bagpipes or the fiddle. It's like a blanket for us. We get to wrap up in it." It's sung by the character Claire Louise McLeod (played by Lisa Chappell) on season 1, episode 5, "Taking the Reins" of the Australian TV series McLeod's Daughters. [ citation needed] Esther Ofarim - Esther and Abi Ofarim - Esther & Abi Ofarim - Ofraim אסתר עופרים". esther-ofarim.de. [ failed verification]A Gaelic proverb is apt on the first day’s sailing, from Corpach to Tobermory: Am fear a bhios fad aig an aiseig gheibh e thairis uaireigin. Which means, “He that waits long for the ferry will get across sometime.” In addition to the well known "Over the Sea to Skye" song, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a variation with different words and this is reproduced below. Bonnie Prince Charlie sailed (or, according to legend, rowed) with Flora MacDonald eastwards from South Uist to Skye.

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton wrote the celebrated lyrics, which starts with the famous line; 'Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing', in the 1870s after becoming interested in Scottish folk songs at Oxford University.Please read Understanding catalogue records for help interpreting this information and Using footage for more information about accessing this film. McColl, Norton. "Discography". Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration. University of Chicago . Retrieved 12 October 2021. Kuntz, Andrew. The Fiddler's Companion: A Descriptive Index of North American and British Isles Music for the Folk Violin and Other Instruments.

While that seems like a lofty statement, anyone who hears the folksy Celtic notes and bagpipes—plus the tell-tale lyrics to "Sing me a song..."—that make up the opening credit sounds will know exactly what I'm talking about. Called "The Skye Boat Song," the tune manages to be sensual and romantic, earthy and mystical, all of which perfectly describe Claire and Jamie's love story.

The Skye Boat Song

Being an island it isn’t surprising that Skye has a wonderful selection of seafood prepared by master chefs in first-class hotels and restaurants and not only seafood but highland game reared in the shadow of the mountains, vegetables from local suppliers and a renowned single malt whisky from the Talisker distillery (In 2007 Talisker 18-year-old won ‘Best Single Malt In The World’ award) as well as a range of locally-brewed craft ales.

It was extremely popular in its day and, from its first recording by Tom Bryce on 29 April 1899, [6] it became a standard among Scottish folk and dance musicians. From the 1960s onwards, it became even more widely known and has remained popular in mainstream music genres. Below, we've rounded up everything you need to know about the song, including its meaning and lyrics. And yes, season 5's choral sound meant a major overhaul for the tune. The show's composer Bear McCreary told OprahMag.com, "In many ways I think it is the most radical of the changes [to the music] that have come up so far." More on that below. As if to mark his words, we pass through a favourite stomping ground of a west coast community of killer whales, but see only ripples. The abundant marine life – orcas, minke whale, short-beaked common dolphin, Risso’s dolphin, harbour porpoise – is the same year-round, but the cooler weather and shifting winds mean that the seas are eerily quiet and the only traffic is working scallop and langoustine boats. If you can take the unpredictable winter weather, you can see some truly stunning places John MacInnes, master mariner Michael Tippett originally included the song, titled as "Over the Sea to Skye", in his arrangements of Four Songs from the British Isles for unaccompanied four-part chorus in 1957, commissioned by North West German Radio, Bremen, for a festival of European folk song. The amateur choir for which they were intended found the songs too difficult, and the first performance took place in July 1958, given by the London Bach Group, conducted by John Minchinton, at Royaumont in France. Tippett's Selected Letters states that he proposed to replace "Over the Sea to Skye" because it was "too strictly held by a publisher here". [ citation needed] Alternative lyrics to the tune were written by Robert Louis Stevenson, probably in 1885. After hearing the Jacobite airs sung by a visitor, he judged the lyrics to be "unworthy", so made a new set of verses "more in harmony with the plaintive tune". [2]The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin recorded an arrangement by their artistic director Desmond Earley for their 2015 album Invisible Stars: Choral Works of Ireland and Scotland [15] The text of the song gives an account of how Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as a serving maid, escaped in a small boat after the defeat of his Jacobite rising of 1745, with the aid of Flora MacDonald. The song draws on the motifs of Jacobitism although it was composed nearly a century and a half after the episode it describes. [3] Especially Stevenson's version, which gives the boat's course (Mull was astern, Rum on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow) seems to describe Charles's flight from the mainland, but that is unhistorical. The only time Charles was in Skye was when he left Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides to avoid the increasingly thorough government searches. It is unlikely that a boat from Benbecula would sail south of Rum to travel to Skye. It's not simply the geography," he said. "The changing of the main title comments on an evolution of the characters. We knew that we wanted something dramatic and cinematic."