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I-Sixteenth Century
Songs sung by the Saltire Singers Poems read by Duncan Macintyre
Programme compiled and introduced by Helena Shire
When the court left Holyrood in 1603, the Scots tradition of court poetry and music was doomed. In this programme, the first of two, Helena Shire illustrates the tradition at its zenith. On June 21 she will show how, in the seventeenth century, the part-songs of the age of Helicon gave way to the native air.

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Read By:
Duncan MacIntyre
Introduced By:
Helena Shire

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