Lowlands of Scotland, The

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Larry Daehn)

Subtitle: Alister McAlpine's Lament

General Info

Year: 1912 / 2006
Duration: c. 2:50
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Folk song
Publisher: Daehn Publications, through C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $60.00   |   Score Only (print) - $5.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bells

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

English folksongs have traditionally been a rich melodic source of material for the wind band. Ralph Vaughn Williams wrote this in 1912 and it's one of the loveliest of the many hundreds he collected.

- Program Note from publisher

Alister McAlpine's Lament (The Lowlands of Scotland) is one of Vaughan Williams's mixed-voice arrangements of Scottish traditional melodies. Written 8in 1912, itss source is T.A. Smith's The Scottish Minstrel, published between 1820 and 1824. It is a sad song with words by Rovert Allan:

The lowlands o' Scotland will ne'er be my hame,
And there's no a hame on Earth for me,
The clans are a' broken and I am alane,
Thinking upon my ain countrie.

Vaughan Williams's creativity and his passion for folk music are abundantly conspicuous in this sensitive musical setting.

- Program Note by arranger

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
• Audio CD: Hill Country Middle School Symphonic Band (Cheryl Floyd, conductor) - 2006

State Ratings

• Florida: III
• Louisiana: III
• Mississippi: III-A
• Texas: III. Complete

Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

• Los Osos High School (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Sam Andress, conductor) – 4 March 2011
• Hill Country Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Symphonic Band (Cheryl Floyd, conductor) – 21 December 2006 (2006 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Folk Songs from Somerset (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
• My Bonny Boy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
• Seventeen Come Sunday (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)

All Wind Works

• Concerto for Bass Tuba (arr. Wick and Chambers) (1954/1992)
• Concerto Grosso (arr. Grechesky) (1924)
• Concerto in F minor for Tuba and Winds (arr. Hare) (1954/1992)
• England's Pleasant Land (arr. Noble) (1938/2017)
• English Folk Song Suite. See: Folk Song Suite
• English Folk Song Suite (arr. Villanueva) (1924/)
• Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (arr. Bocook) (1910/2006)
• Fantasia on Christmas Carols (arr. Laughlin) (1912/2016/2020)
• Fantasia on Greensleeves (arr. Wagner) (1934/2011)
• Five English Folk Songs (arr. Feldman) (1913/2009)
• Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" (arr. Gregson) (1939/2004)
• Flourish for Glorious John (orch. Boyd) (1957/1998)
• Flourish for Wind Band (1939)
• Folk Song Suite (1924/2008)
• Folk Songs from Somerset (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
• The Golden Vanity (arr. Wagner) (1933/2009)
• I Vow to Thee, My Country (as setter; ed. Grechesky) (1921/1988)
• Lark Ascending, The (tr. Silvester) (1914/1925/2003)
• Linden Lea (arr. Wagner) (1902/2013)
• Linden Lea (arr. Stout) (1902/1984)
• The Lowlands of Scotland (arr. Daehn) (1912/2006)
• March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (arr. Erwin) (1909/2010)
• My Bonny Boy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
• Norfolk Rhapsody (tr. Robert O'Brien) (1905)
• Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor (tr. O'Toole) (1906/2014?)
• Overture to "The Wasps" (tr. Frank Hudson) (1909)
• Prelude, 49th Parallel (arr. van der Beek) (1960/2018)
• Prelude: 49th Parallel (arr. Noble) (1941/2014)
• Prelude: 49th Parallel (arr. Winkler) (1941/1960)
• Prelude from "49th Parallel" (tr. Osmon) (1941/1960/1987/2002)
• Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes (arr. Curnow) (1954/1982)
• Prelude: The New Commonwealth (arr. Grauer) (1940/2006)
• A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (arr. Wagner) (2018)
• Rhosymedre (tr. Beeler) (1920/1972)
• Rhosymedre (tr. Johnston) (1920/2011)
• Rhosymedre (tr. Baldwin) (1920/)
• The Running Set (arr. Daehn) (1933/2007)
• The Running Set (tr. Silvester) (1933)
• Scherzo alla Marcia (1956)
• Sea Songs (1924)
• Sea Songs (arr. Longfield) (1924/2006)
• Seventeen Come Sunday (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
• Sine Nomine (arr. Cacavas) (1906/1998)
• Sine Nomine (arr. Houseknecht) (1906/1960)
• Sine Nomine (arr. Reed) (1906/1976)
• Songs of Travel (arr. Patterson) (1901-4)
• Three Dorset Songs (arr. Stotter) (1902-1903/2003)
• Three Studies in English Folk Song (arr. Harbinson) (1927/1999/2003)
• Toccata Marziale (1924)
• Toccata Marziale (ed. Battisti) (1924/2005)
• Variations for Wind Band (trans. Hunsberger) (1957/1988/1997)
• A Vaughan Williams Christmas (arr. Wagner) (1999)
• Wassail (arr. Smith)

Resources

• Perusal score
• Vaughan Williams, R.; Daehn, L. (2006). The Lowlands of Scotland : Alister McAlpine's Lament [score]. Daehn Publications: New Glaurus, Wisc.