Flower of the Quern

Could anyone give me some history on the tune Flower of the Quern? All I know is that it’s by J.Scott Skinner. I have a lovely arrangement of this for string orchestra, and I’d like to be able to tell my students something about this beautiful melody. Thank you.

Re: Flower of the Quern

There’s a little bit about it at

http://aberdeen.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0750

if that helps.

Re: Flower of the Quern

See also

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FLOW_FLYN.htm

(scroll down, there’s a bit more on it there)

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