Now tramp o’er moss and fell (Henry Rowley Bishop)

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• (Posted 2023-09-24)  CPDL #75709:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-24).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 945 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Now tramp o’er moss and fell
Composer: Henry Rowley Bishop
Lyricist: Thomas Morton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1864 Novello, Ewer & Co.
Description: Chorus. From Bishop’s opera The Knight of Snowdown

Original text and translations

English text

Now tramp o’er moss and fell,
The batter’d ground returns the sound,
While breathing Chanters proudly swell,
Clan Alpine’s cry is “win or die.”
Guardian Spirits of the brave!
Victory o’er my hero wave.

A dramatic adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake.
Clan Alpine were descendants of Scots marauders from Ulster, who settled in the Western Caledonian Highlands in the early centuries of the Christian era.