Coronach (Scottish-Irish Lamentation or Dirge)

Coronach Basic Information:

• Also written as - coranich, corrinoch, coranach, cronach.
• Lamentation or dirge for the dead, sung or played on bagpipes.
  
• Accompanied funerals in the Scottish Highlands & also in Ireland.
• Can be a choral lament or a funeral song sung or shrieked by Celtic women.
• No coronach songs have been recorded.
  

Coronach Origin:

• Dated from 1490-1500.
• From Scottish Gaelic corranach.
• Related to Irish rānadh, a crying.

Coronach In Popular Culture:

• The Bonny Earl of Murray (a Scottish border ballad) is supposedly composed in the tradition of the coronach.
• Coronach - Scottish Renaissance instrumentalist group (www.coronach.co.uk/).
• Jethro Tull (music group) released a single called "Coronach" in 1986.
• Coronach is also a poem by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).
  

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