A coronach (also written coranich , corrinoch , coranach , cronach , etc.) is the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the Gol, being the third part of a round of keening , the traditional improvised singing at a death, wake or funeral in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland . Though observers have reported hearing such songs in Ireland or in the Scottish Highlands, and melodies have been noted down and printed since the 18th century, audio recordings are rare; not only was the practice dying out or being suppressed through the 19th century, but it was also considered by its practitioners to have been a very personal and spiritual practice, not suitable for performance or recording.
31-544: The Scottish border ballad The Bonny Earl of Murray is supposedly composed in the tradition of the coronach. Schubert 's Opus 52 No 4 (D 836), which uses words from Sir Walter Scott 's Lady of the Lake in an arrangement for female choir with piano accompaniment, bears the title Coronach . This death -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Bonny Earl of Murray " The Bonnie Earl o' Moray " ( Child 181, Roud 334 )
62-612: A Brief History", published in the September 2004 issue, which implied that he had attended the convention. He apologized in a note. Lapham left two years later, after 28 years as Harper's editor-in-chief, and launched Lapham's Quarterly . The August 2004 issue contained a photo essay by noted photojournalist Peter Turnley , who was hired to do a series of photo essays for the magazine. The eight-page spread in August 2004 showed images of death, grieving, and funerals from both sides of
93-402: A South African organization working for greater popular access to HIV treatments, posted a response by eight researchers documenting more than 50 errors in the article. In 2006, Lapham was succeeded as Harper's editor by Roger Hodge . Since that time, the magazine has had a number of shorter-termed editors in chief, several of whom were fired amid various controversies. On January 25, 2010,
124-570: A three-paragraph distillation of the week's political, scientific, and bizarre news. Like "Harper's Index" and "Findings" in the print edition of the magazine, "Weekly Review" items are typically arranged for ironic contrast. As of the December 2019 issue, Julian Lucas writes the print edition's "New Books" column. Editor Lewis H. Lapham was criticized for his reportage of the 2004 Republican National Convention , which had yet to occur, in his essay "Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill,
155-590: Is a popular Scottish ballad , which may date from as early as the 17th century. The ballad touches on a true story stemming from the rivalry of James Stewart , Earl of Moray (pronounced Murray ), and the Earl of Huntly , which culminated in Huntly's murder of Moray in 1592. The exact circumstances that led to the murder are not known for certain, but both their families, the Stewarts of Doune (pronounced "doon") and
186-566: The Atlantic Richfield Company , and CEO Robert Orville Anderson to amass the $ 1.5 million needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation. It now publishes the magazine. In 1984, Lapham and MacArthur, now publisher and president of the foundation, respectively, along with new executive editor Michael Pollan , redesigned Harper's and introduced the "Harper's Index" with statistics arranged for, "Readings", and
217-715: The George W. Bush administrations. Beginning in 2003, the magazine concentrated on reportage the Iraq War , including long articles on the battle for Fallujah , and the cronyism of the American reconstruction of Iraq . Other reporting has covered abortion issues, cloning, and global warming. In 2007, Harper's added the No Comment blog by attorney Scott Horton about legal controversies, Central Asian politics, and German studies. In April 2006, Harper's began publishing
248-524: The Washington Babylon blog on its website, written by Washington, D.C. editor Ken Silverstein about American politics; and in 2008, Harper's added the Sentences blog by contributing editor Wyatt Mason , about literature and belles lettres . Since that time, these two blogs have ceased publication. Another website feature, featuring a rotating set of authors, is the "Weekly Review",
279-518: The war in Afghanistan . On the U.S. side, Turnley visited the funeral of an Oklahoma National Guard member, Spc. Kyle Brinlee, 21, who was killed when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan . During his funeral, Turnley photographed the open casket as it lay in the back of the high school auditorium where the funeral was held to accommodate 1,200 mourners, and
310-511: The "Annotation" departments to complement its fiction, essays, reportage, and reviews. Under the Lapham and MacArthur's leadership, Harper's Magazine continued publishing literary fiction by John Updike , George Saunders , and others. Politically, Harper's has been a vocal critic of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Editor Lapham's monthly "Notebook" columns have lambasted the Clinton and
341-551: The 1970s, Harper's Magazine published Seymour Hersh 's reporting of the My Lai Massacre by United States forces in Vietnam. In 1971, editor Willie Morris resigned under pressure from owner John Cowles Jr. , prompting resignations from many of the magazine's star contributors and staffers, including Norman Mailer , David Halberstam , Robert Kotlowitz , Marshall Frady , and Larry L. King : Morris's departure jolted
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#1732787131872372-550: The Gordons of Huntly, had a history of territorial rivalry and competition for royal favour. In his notes on the ballad, Francis James Child relates how Huntly, eager to prove that Moray was plotting with the Earl of Bothwell against King James VI , received a commission to bring Moray to trial. In the attempt to apprehend him, Moray's house at Donibristle in Fife was set on fire and the visiting Sheriff of Moray killed. Moray fled
403-593: The October 1851 issue of Harper's under the title, "The Town-Ho's Story", named after Chapter 54 of Moby-Dick . In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company, becoming Harper & Row (now HarperCollins ). In 1965, the magazine was separately incorporated, and became a division of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company , owned by the Cowles Media Company . In
434-483: The album Scottish Choice (1961). Live version recorded by The Corries on their album "Live from Scotland Volume 4" (1977). English composer Benjamin Britten arranged the song for voice and piano sometime before 11 December 1940, and included it in the first volume of his folk song arrangements. Harper%27s Magazine Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and
465-602: The arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States. Harper's Magazine has won 22 National Magazine Awards . Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine published works of prominent authors and political figures, including Herman Melville , Woodrow Wilson , and Winston Churchill . Willie Morris 's resignation as editor in 1971
496-538: The ballad is sung in Scots , the form is different from the more anglicised version in the Child catalogue. For example, the verses given above are sung with these words: A German translation by Johann Gottfried Herder , Murrays Ermordung , published 1778–79, was set to music by Johannes Brahms in 1858. The ballad was also set to music by Hugh S. Roberton and Benjamin Britten . The American writer Sylvia Wright coined
527-538: The firing of the magazine's editor, Roger Hodge, by publisher John R. MacArthur was met with criticism among the magazine's subscribers and staff. MacArthur initially claimed Hodge was stepping down for "personal reasons", but later disclosed that he fired Hodge. Ellen Rosenbush served as editor from 2010 to 2015. She returned in January 2016 when MacArthur fired Christopher Cox, who had been named editor only three months prior in October 2015. James Marcus assumed
558-592: The funeral scene to the public eye". The March 2006 issue included an article by Celia Farber , "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science", presenting Peter Duesberg 's theory that HIV does not cause AIDS . It was strongly criticized by AIDS activists, scientists and physicians, the Columbia Journalism Review , and others as inaccurate and promoting a scientifically discredited theory. The Treatment Action Campaign ,
589-417: The house, but was chased and killed in its grounds, betrayed, it was said, by the glow of his burning helmet tassle. His last words, according to the (probably apocryphal) story related by Walter Scott , deserve special mention. Huntly slashed him across the face with his sword, and as he lay dying Moray said "Ye hae spilt a better face than yer ain" ("You have spoiled a better face than your own"). The killing
620-532: The job was taken over by Michael Kinsley . Lapham returned to the position again from 1983 until 2006. On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing Harper's Magazine after the August 1980 issue, but on July 9, 1980, John R. MacArthur (who goes by the name Rick) and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ,
651-554: The literary world. Mailer, William Styron , Gay Talese , Bill Moyers , and Tom Wicker declared that they would boycott Harper's as long as the Cowles family owned it, and the four staff writers hired by Morris—Frady among them—resigned in solidarity with him. Robert Shnayerson, a senior editor at Time magazine, was hired to replace Morris as Harper's ninth editor, serving in that position from 1971 until 1976. Lewis H. Lapham served as managing editor from 1976 until 1981, when
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#1732787131872682-481: The magazine's circulation had grown to 50,000. The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , and the Brontë sisters . The magazine soon was publishing the work of American artists and writers, and in time commentary by the likes of Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson . Portions of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick were first published in
713-512: The murder. It is possible that the inclusion of the King's clear condemnation of the deed (whether or not it was ever expressed by him) was an effort to prevent the ballad from appearing treasonous. However, we can discount the ballad's claim that Moray was the Queen's lover (hinting at a possible motive for James's complicity). The ballad, which praises Moray as "a braw gallant" ( Scots , calland ) ,
744-469: The photo was used in the photo essay. Brinlee's family subsequently sued the magazine in federal court. The case ended in 2007 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the unauthorized publication was in "poor taste" but upheld the ruling of the Tenth Circuit that the magazine had not violated the privacy rights of the family, since the family had invited the press and, according the court, "opened up
775-431: The post of editor in 2016. In March 2018, an essay by Katie Roiphe on the #MeToo movement excited controversy both online and inside Harper's . Marcus had complained about the piece, suggesting the critique of #MeToo was inappropriate in light of Harper's "longtime reputation as a gentleman's smoking club"; he attributed this disagreement as a primary cause of his firing in 2018. In April 2018, Ellen Rosenbush assumed
806-531: The real words, because they were less romantic than her misheard version. The term "mondegreen" has since been adopted for any misheard song lyric which changes the meaning of the original. Versions of the ballad can be heard on Isla St Clair 's album Great Songs and Ballads of Scotland and Irish-American singer Robbie O'Connell's album Close to the Bone . It was also recorded by Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor for
837-569: The term " mondegreen " in an essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final two lines of the above verse as "they have slain the Earl o' Moray, and Lady Mondegreen." She said that she always imagined the Earl dying beside his faithful lover "Lady Mondegreen", and refused to hear
868-448: The title of editorial director. In October 2019, the magazine announced that novelist and essayist Christopher Beha would be taking over as editor, with Rosenbush remaining as editor-at-large. In July 2020, Harper's published an open letter called " A Letter on Justice and Open Debate " criticizing "illiberalism" and promoting a tolerance of different viewpoints. The letter received a mixed response on Twitter with some remarking that
899-533: Was considered a major event, and many other employees of the magazine resigned with him. The magazine has developed into the 21st century, adding several blogs. Harper's Magazine began as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in New York City in June 1850, by publisher Harper & Brothers . The company also founded the magazines Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar , and grew to become HarperCollins . The first press run of Harper's Magazine included 7,500 copies and sold out almost immediately. Six months later,
930-446: Was most likely composed by one of his supporters . The words "Oh he might have been a king!" should not be taken to imply that he could have become King . More likely, they conveyed the sense that he possessed the required attributes of a king and so could easily have been one. It is from the first verse of "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" that the term mondegreen , meaning a misheard lyric, came into popular use among folk musicians . When
961-558: Was widely condemned. Moray's mother, Margaret Campbell, had a painting made of her son's dead body, as evidence of his multiple wounds, bearing the legend "God Revenge My Caus". Her intention was to show this publicly at the Cross in Edinburgh , but the King ignored her request. The King's reaction in the ballad is to condemn Huntly's action (in verse 2): Nevertheless, James did not punish Huntly, prompting rumours of his own complicity in