St Kilda

Music composed by Adrian Allan.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Scotland
• piano
• music
• island
• St.Kilda
• history

[tartanbeastie]

i'm not completely certain that from 6.50-7.50 minutes in that this was hirta. the clothing doesnt fit with St kildans normal dress. particularly in the later days of the island being inhabited. i may be wrong but it may have been from lewis..??..

[adrianallan]

well spotted - it is taken from a film that pretends to re-enact the evacuation of St Kilda. It was actually filmed on Foula in Shetland in the 1940s (I think). All the other footage is authentic.

[tartanbeastie]

its certainly not a criticism, but having read so much but as of yet not visited i thought there was a few discrepencies. great wee film and the sound track was atmospheric.

[adrianallan]

thanks - nice to know I've please a Scot. Never been either, but St kilda's fascinating story about an island locked in time.

[aarfeld]

Just to give you a sense of how isolated the islanders were, it is said that after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, British soliers landed on Hirta looking for Bonnie Prince Charles, following up on a rumor that he and some of his senior Jacobite aides had escaped to St Kilda. But the soldiers discovered that the isolated natives knew nothing of the prince--and neither had they heard of King George II.

[adrianallan]

Thanks for that insight - fascinating stuff !

[MacOSXTutorials21]

There still is a place like st.kilda but it is actually inhabitable and the names canna

[volvo152]

Why is nobody moving subject as they multiply, if there was a hundred of their men had to occur Associations incest. Can someone answer me this question. I think that for the Scots is something quite normal to have a child with his sister or brother.

[TheThurso67]

Were they any happier when they left their island? What a haunting place. Is there anywhere else in our world like St. Kilda? The piano piece did well to create the mood for those of us who will never get there, but think of her from time to time. The outer Hebrides are the great escape from our mundane existence and surely St. Kilda is the jewel in the crown.

[adrianallan]

sorry to take so long to reply. Yes, I know what you mean, but the intention was to break from a musical cliche that often surrounds scottish music. Did they have their own musical tradition, and if so, was it gaelic influenced or something else entirely ? We will probably never know.

[ohyesmaybe]

The footage is absoulutely facinating, and the music is beautiful, but I'm not sure they go together. I can't help thinking that some sort of Gaelic influence would have been more appropriate, adding a dimension to the music that the islanders themselves perhaps could have identified with. All the same, impressive stuff.