Scotland's Burning
"London's Burning (round)" redirects here. For The Clash's, see London's Burning (song).
A drinking fountain next to the Monument to the Great Fire of London, showing the song's words
"Scotland's Burning", "London's Burning", and variants are a song and nursery rhyme popular with children.
Words
The song can be sung as a round when each part starts two bars after the previous one. It may be 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.[1] However, the first notation of a round in this theme dates from 1580.[2]
The lyrics are mentioned in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, scene 1, when Gremio asks Curtis to prepare a warm fire for guests.[3]
Musical scores
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References
- 1 2 Margaret Read MacDonald & Winifred Jaeger (2006). The Round Book: Rounds Kids Love to Sing, p.73. August House. ISBN 9780874837865.
- 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.
- ↑ (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.
- ↑ Mason, Lowell (1837). Parley's Magazine, Volume 5, p.191.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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