Like a Bird on the Wing
Fantasy-Variations on the “Skye Boat Song”
Solo guitar
- Duration
- 9 min
- Level
- Advanced
- Premiere
- Stewart Kelly, Edinburgh Society of Musicians, Edinburgh, 16 November 2024
- Commissioned by
- Stewart Kelly
- Publisher
- Sacred Black Publications, SBP 2504
$10PDF score
Buy the scoreAbout the music
Like a Bird on the Wing is a fantasy and set of variations on the “Skye Boat Song”, the Scottish song whose refrain begins “Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing.” It was commissioned by the Scottish guitarist Stewart Kelly.
Kelly gave the premiere for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians in November 2024 and played it again at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025.
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Sample pages
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Performances
- — Stewart Kelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Chapel at St Vincent’s, Edinburgh, Scotland
- — Stewart Kelly, Edinburgh Society of Musicians, Edinburgh
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