Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
Sounding ChildhoodMain MenuPart 1: Hymns & Religious SongsPart 2: Songs for School and PlayPart 3: Animal Welfare (Bands of Mercy) SongsPart 4: Christmas CarolsChristmas Carol choir December 2023Part 5: Folk SongsWorks CitedAbout the Author
“Flow gently, sweet Afton” is a poem by Scotsman Robert Burns in the folksong-idiom, as he praises the Afton Water (Ayrshire, Scotland), this “murmuring stream” (v. 1), and the idyllic, pastoral life it symbolizes where his Mary sleeps: all is set against his cautioning the river, the blackbird (etc.) to “disturb not her dream.” Burns was a part of the late-eighteenth-century folksong revival, collecting and writing folksongs, and this was published in 1791 in his Scots Musical Museum. Jonathan E. Spilman wrote what would become its famous tune, a tune many people may now associate with “Away in the manager,” as recast by Irishman William J. Kirkpatrick for this Christmas carol.
This page has paths:
1media/2017 arch smiling color.JPG2023-06-12T10:29:40-07:00Beth South9cba9d75a82488a4e4c1af1d58b23357ce6b4889Part 2: Songs for School and PlayAlisa Clapp-Itnyre43image_header14089942024-05-19T18:44:35-07:00Alisa Clapp-Itnyred22bb56f3c8ebb3d7e0537bc1b85da2502038efe