A sample of my fandom research
Aug. 23rd, 2020 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaSo I started out wondering whether it would be historically accurate to have Ewen singing 'Both Sides the Tweed' to Keith in a fic (no, not in my current one). I do have a head canon that Ewen has a very nice singing voice, and that Keith never tries to sing if he can help it. And it would be very nicely symbolic, right? Let friendship and honour unite, and flourish on both sides the Tweed.
Sadly I have not quite got all the way in my research--I know that the original lyrics must be a fair bit older than 1819, but I can't find any more info than that. Here they are, along with the original melody, which I have been learning, and which is the one I would have to use in the fic (it's apparently an old Scottish air called 'Tweedside'). I don't like that melody as much as the one that Dick Gaughan wrote at the same time as (very reasonably) removing all mention of a king from the song, but I don't dislike it, either.
Anyway, the notes in the 1819 publication say that the author isn't known, and doesn't give a date, either. But! That publication is a treasure trove of Jacobite songs, the majority of which are not among those that you find on Youtube. Also there's a lot of Hanoverian/Whig songs, which I have not been able to find anywhere else! Very interesting, though few of the songs have melodies.
Sadly I have not quite got all the way in my research--I know that the original lyrics must be a fair bit older than 1819, but I can't find any more info than that. Here they are, along with the original melody, which I have been learning, and which is the one I would have to use in the fic (it's apparently an old Scottish air called 'Tweedside'). I don't like that melody as much as the one that Dick Gaughan wrote at the same time as (very reasonably) removing all mention of a king from the song, but I don't dislike it, either.
Anyway, the notes in the 1819 publication say that the author isn't known, and doesn't give a date, either. But! That publication is a treasure trove of Jacobite songs, the majority of which are not among those that you find on Youtube. Also there's a lot of Hanoverian/Whig songs, which I have not been able to find anywhere else! Very interesting, though few of the songs have melodies.
