Scotland's Burning

"London's Burning (round)" redirects here. For The Clash's, see London's Burning (song).
"Scotland's Burning" (1580)[1]  Play 
"London's Burning"[2]  Play 
"Scotland's Burning" in duple meter.[3][4][5]  Play 

"Scotland's Burning", "London's Burning", and variants are a song and nursery rhyme in the form of a round. The song is an example of a nursery rhyme with tragic or violent themes. The lyrics are said to be about Great Fire of London, a five-day fire in the city of London in 1666.[2] However, the first notation of a round in this theme dates from 1580.[1] The lyrics are made reference to in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Lindahl, Greg. "Scotland, It Burneth", Ravenscroft Songbook. Cites Vlasto, Jill. "An Elizabethan Anthology of Rounds", Musical Quarterly XL (1954) 222-234. Accessed August 25, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Margaret Read MacDonald & Winifred Jaeger (2006). The Round Book: Rounds Kids Love to Sing, p.73. August House. ISBN 9780874837865.
  3. Mason, Lowell (1837). Parley's Magazine, Volume 5, p.191.
  4. Kaye Pottie, Vernon Ellis, Kathy Kaulbach (1992). Folksongs of the Maritimes: From the Collections of Helen Creighton and Other Distinguished Maritime Folklorists, p.12. Formac. ISBN 9780887802003.
  5. Newman Ivey White, Jan Philip Schinhan; eds. (1977). The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore: Vol. V: The Music of the Folk Songs, p.115. Duke University. ISBN 9780822382850.
  6. (1902). "Music of Shakspere's Time", Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, Volume 69, p.243-4. J.B. Lippincott. pre-ISBN.


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