Traditional Words Sound a New Beat

A high school music department from Edinburgh are doing song writing as part of their studies and are concentrating on Scottish writing that has place as its core theme. With the help of the English department, the young people are researching text from the four writers:
Lewis Grassic Gibbons, Ian Rankin, Neil Gunn and Alexander McCall Smith The young people will select a piece of text that reflects a place and comment on their selection. Following on, they will combine researching four Scottish songwriters and repeat the above exercise; Sheena Wellington, Dougie Maclean, Robert Burns and Jim Malcolm. With this basis of research they will then look into reworking the words to form their own interpretation. The resulting words will then be laid down with the digital tracks on the computer.

“I am looking forward to looking into the digital music-making part and giving the song a contemporary beat,” said one pupil. “It is a good opportunity to work with the English and IT department and to feel that we have contributed something to the Homecoming”, said Mr Munroe of the music department.