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Somewhat Celtic song-tunes - John N MacNeill


Browsing books of Gaelic poetry triggered the writing of these song-tunes.

For the setting of the poem Bisearta, for A Place So Perfect and for Second on my List, there is a single melodic line and a sparse written accompaniment.
For each of the rest of these tunes, there is a melody line, a second line that can be used as wished as a harmony line or as an alternative melody, and chord symbols or chords.


Where I was yestreen - two song-tunes by John MacNeill
with three options for the words:
Neil MacLeod's Gaelic lyric FAR AN ROBH MI 'N RAOIR;
MacLeod's lyric as translated and versified by Mary Mackellar;
MacNeill's adaptation of Mackellar's verses

(The) day will rise - a song-tune by John MacNeill
with words that are George Campbell Hay's Song, slightly augmented;
Hay's original Gaelic poem Òran;
Hay's tune for Òran

Am Faillean Ùr / The Fresh Sapling - a song-tune by John MacNeill
for either of George Campbell Hay's poems below;
Hay's Gaelic poem Am Faillean Ùr ;
Hay's English poem The Fresh Sapling;
Hay's tune for either poem

Then Farewell, Tarbert - a song-tune by John MacNeill for
George Campbell Hay's poem Then Farewell, Tarbert;
Hay's tune for his poem

Bisearta - a setting by John MacNeill of
George Campbell Hay's Gaelic war poem Bisearta
from World War Two

A Place So Perfect - by John MacNeill
a sonnet

Second on my List - by John MacNeill
a sonnet


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