Over the Sea to Skye

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The music can be heard in Season 3, episode 12 of Sex and the City entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" before the first wedding of Charlotte York to Trey McDougal.

While season 1's was exceptionally Scottish, Mashable explained that season 2 added the string instrument called a viola de gamba to echo a Parisian sound since Jamie and Claire found themselves in France. When the couple traveled to Jamaica in season 3, the tune changed during episode 9, "The Doldrums," when it took on a Caribbean flair, strengthening its drum-led beats. And of course in season 4, the slower pace, addition of a banjo, and distinct bluegrass sound ("might be my personal favorite," McCreary says) signaled Claire and Jamie had made it to America. As if to mark his words, we pass through a favourite stomping ground of a west coast community of killer whales, but see only ripples. The abundant marine life – orcas, minke whale, short-beaked common dolphin, Risso’s dolphin, harbour porpoise – is the same year-round, but the cooler weather and shifting winds mean that the seas are eerily quiet and the only traffic is working scallop and langoustine boats. If you can take the unpredictable winter weather, you can see some truly stunning places John MacInnes, master marinerMichael Tippett originally included the song, titled as "Over the Sea to Skye", in his arrangements of Four Songs from the British Isles for unaccompanied four-part chorus in 1957, commissioned by North West German Radio, Bremen, for a festival of European folk song. The amateur choir for which they were intended found the songs too difficult, and the first performance took place in July 1958, given by the London Bach Group, conducted by John Minchinton, at Royaumont in France. Tippett's Selected Letters states that he proposed to replace "Over the Sea to Skye" because it was "too strictly held by a publisher here". [ citation needed] Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet composed the new lyrics to Ross's song which had been heard by Anne Campbell MacLeod in the 1870s, and the line "Over the Sea to Skye" is now a cornerstone of the tourism industry on the Isle of Skye.

The Skye Boat Song", by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in the collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses, Project Gutenberg It's not simply the geography," he said. "The changing of the main title comments on an evolution of the characters. We knew that we wanted something dramatic and cinematic." It's sung by the character Claire Louise McLeod (played by Lisa Chappell) on season 1, episode 5, "Taking the Reins" of the Australian TV series McLeod's Daughters. [ citation needed]Music - The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin". ucdchoralscholars.ie . Retrieved 12 October 2021. It was extremely popular in its day and, from its first recording by Tom Bryce on 29 April 1899, [6] it became a standard among Scottish folk and dance musicians. From the 1960s onwards, it became even more widely known and has remained popular in mainstream music genres. Sir Harold Edwin Boulton wrote the celebrated lyrics, which starts with the famous line; 'Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing', in the 1870s after becoming interested in Scottish folk songs at Oxford University. Sit or stand in a circle and sing the song together – break into two groups and have one group sing the verse and the other sing the chorus. Song and rhyme words