Ca' the yowes

"Ca' the yowes to the knowes" (“Drive the ewes to the hills”) is a Scottish folk song collected by Robert Burns from 1794.[1][2] The song was made widely known in recordings by Kathleen Ferrier of an arrangement by Maurice Jacobson, composer, accompanist and chairman of the music publisher Curwen. These included in recitals given by Ferrier and Bruno Walter at the Edinburgh Festival of 1952. The song was also set for solo and chorus (tenor and S.A.T.B.) by Vaughan Williams (1922), and arranged by Benjamin Britten (1951).[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43800
  2. ↑ Thomas Humphry Ward, M. Arnold The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions 1881 "The same mistake of ascribing popular songs to remote antiquity was made in the case of Ca the Yowes to"
  3. ↑ The American Record Guide Page 579 Peter Hugh Reed - 1962 "Ca' The Yowes" (also harmonized for solo and chorus by Vaughan Williams) appears here with Britten's flowing contrapuntal line mixed with broken chords....


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