@94iou32 If you go to 'Allan MacDonald The Lament for the Children' (on Youtube) you'll hear Allan playing and singing it. Someone has also put up the lyrics and translation as well.
In terms of their overall culture, yes, it is quite a stretch. Thus I found it intriguing that they produced similar "wailing sounds." But diff peoples experience common emotions, which seems to explain that.
@SkySpiral8 You're not the first - see J. Purser, 'Scotland's Music'. The closest comparison he could make to Gaelic tonal usage is Ethiopian nasal singing.
The sound is similar to old African American spirituals. Which makes sense, not only because humans,especially those living close to nature, behave similarly, but also because the AA slaves had much to sorrow for as well--oppression, separated families, etc.
@SkySpiral8 interesting you think this. I think there's a direct line from this type of music to the music of the American South through the Ulster Scots who emigrated there. African Americans would have gone to Scottish presbyterian kirks and heard these kind of laments. Even modern country has an influence from this kind of music - the melodies and instruments sound celtic and the lyrics are often a lament of sorts.
i'm english and that lament,lad with the dark hair is so beautiful,and i am so sorry for her loss...how can nobody know who wriote this masterpiece....
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, you have given me back a piece of ancestral memory, a connection to a soundness of how to bear and soothe the deepest grief, that I needing to reclaim. Somewhere within knew I needed a celtic lament to open my heart this morn and you showed and told me why. I am both humbled and grateful.
Us Irish and Scots are Gaelic and not Celts
TheFionuir 2 weeks ago
has anyone lyrics of firr a ciann dhubh?
94iou32 2 months ago
@94iou32 If you go to 'Allan MacDonald The Lament for the Children' (on Youtube) you'll hear Allan playing and singing it. Someone has also put up the lyrics and translation as well.
hafpipe 1 month ago
@94iou32
Fhir a’ chinn duibh, thug mi gaol dhut
Fhir a’ chinn duibh, thug mi gràdh dhut
Thug mi gaol is thug mi gràdh dhut
Thug mi gaol nach d'thug mi càch dhut
Fhir a’ chinn duibh, thug mi gràdh dhut
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In terms of their overall culture, yes, it is quite a stretch. Thus I found it intriguing that they produced similar "wailing sounds." But diff peoples experience common emotions, which seems to explain that.
SkySpiral8 2 months ago
@SkySpiral8 You're not the first - see J. Purser, 'Scotland's Music'. The closest comparison he could make to Gaelic tonal usage is Ethiopian nasal singing.
liamcrouse 2 months ago
The sound is similar to old African American spirituals. Which makes sense, not only because humans,especially those living close to nature, behave similarly, but also because the AA slaves had much to sorrow for as well--oppression, separated families, etc.
SkySpiral8 2 months ago
@SkySpiral8 What a crock.
cscptdave 2 months ago
@cscptdave Ahh, racist much?
SkySpiral8 2 months ago
@SkySpiral8 Trying to relate the Gaelic people to Africans is a HUGE stretch, don't ya think?
cscptdave 2 months ago
@SkySpiral8 interesting you think this. I think there's a direct line from this type of music to the music of the American South through the Ulster Scots who emigrated there. African Americans would have gone to Scottish presbyterian kirks and heard these kind of laments. Even modern country has an influence from this kind of music - the melodies and instruments sound celtic and the lyrics are often a lament of sorts.
gert83 2 days ago
5:26 Beautiful lyrics and sound.
fivenaumans 2 months ago
i am see alot of words in scottish gealic are the same as those in irish gealic i could work out the jist of what is been said with Irish gealic
bigjohn697791 3 months ago
who is singing the lament 2:38 they are beautiful singers and they're singing one of the most touching songs i've ever heard.....10/10.
junkman19571 3 months ago
can't you just feel her love for her child,and her pain...what a beautiful person.
junkman19571 3 months ago
i'm english and that lament,lad with the dark hair is so beautiful,and i am so sorry for her loss...how can nobody know who wriote this masterpiece....
junkman19571 3 months ago
Thanks for posting this.
I hope to meet him someday.
CreatorsKid 3 months ago
beautifully powerful... I could connect to the grandmother singing her simple phrase over and over when all other words fail in grieving...
Starlisadar 4 months ago
Martyn Bennett....a wonderful musician. So sad for his Mum. x
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Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, you have given me back a piece of ancestral memory, a connection to a soundness of how to bear and soothe the deepest grief, that I needing to reclaim. Somewhere within knew I needed a celtic lament to open my heart this morn and you showed and told me why. I am both humbled and grateful.
Shian222 8 months ago
Thanks for posting that video.
GreenManelishi 1 year ago