The Flowers Of The Forest
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Flowers of the Forest" (in Gaelic "Blata Na G-Coll"), also known as "I've Heard of<br> Lilting" is a Scottish air, march or reel, an Irish slow air in D Major (Neil,<br> O'Farrell, O'Neill, Ross), D Mixolydian (Johnson), A Mixolydian (Neil).<br> The parts are played: one part (Neil), AAB (Ross), AABB'C (O'Neill) or AABBCC'<br> (Johnson).<br> It is a lament usually played on the pipes. It was played at the funeral of Winston<br> Churchill.<br> There are longer versions usually played as reels.<br> The tune was selected by Queen Victoria for widely acclaimed singer of Scottish<br> songs John Wilson's recital during her visit to Taymouth Castle in 1842.<br> The melody appears in the music manuscript collections of multi-instrumentalist<br> John Rook (1840, Waverton, Cumbria) and fiddler James Christie (1730-1760, Banff,<br> Scotland). <br> It was printed in Johnson's Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century (1984),<br> McGibbon's Scots Tunes, Book 1 (c. 1762),<br> Neil's The Scots Fiddle (1991),<br> O'Farrell's Pocket Companion, vol. 1 (c. 1805),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and<br> William Ross's Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1869).<br>
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