View source for Annotation:Duke of Roxburghe's Farewell to the Blackmount Forest

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|f_annotation='''DUKE OF ROXBURGHE'S FAREWELL TO THE BLACKMOUNT FOREST'''.  Scottish, March (whole or cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (Glen): AA'BB'CC'DD' (Cranford).  The "Duke of Roxburghe's Farewell to the Blackmount Forest" was composed by piper [[wikipedia:Angus_MacKay]] (1813-1859), one of his last recorded pieces, composed in 1853. MacKay was Queen Victoria's first piper, preceding William Ross, the Queen's favorite. In 1854 MacKay was institutionalized in his later life, and died after escaping the asylum at Dumfries. 
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Black Mount (also Blackmount) is a mountain range located in Argyll and Bute, and Blackmount Forest is a deer park (now part of the Glen Nevis and Glen Coe scenic area). Black Mount Forest Lodge was a famous hunting lodge nearby.  
|f_printed_sources= Cranford ('''The Cape Breton Highland Collection'''), 2015; No. 77, p. 40. Alexander Glen ('''Caledonian Repository of Music for the Great Highland Bagpipe'''), 1860; No. 46, p. 38.  
|f_recorded_sources=Columbia 33SX 1075, The Regimental Band and The Massed Pipers of the Scots Guards - "Bearskin and Tartan" (1959). Greentrax CDTRAX 131, Eilidh Shaw - "Heepirumbo" (1998).Dan Hughie MacEachern - "The Land of my Love."
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [https://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t3937.html]
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