e/The Land of the Mountain and the Flood

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has glosseng: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood is an overture for orchestra, composed by Hamish MacCunn in 1887. Often cited as the archetypal Scottish overture, it is frequently likened to the works of Sir Walter Scott in its unashamedly lyrical, romantic view of the Scottish landscape. The title is in fact taken from Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto vi, stanza 2. After its first performance at Crystal Palace, George Bernard Shaw said witheringly of it:
lexicalizationeng: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
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