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'''BATTLE OF HARLAW, THE.''' AKA - "The Desperate Battle." Scottish, Fiddle Pibroch (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning. AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSST (theme and variations). The Battle of Harlaw took place on July 24th, 1411, and pitted the Lowlands lairds against the followers of Donald of the Isles in the latter's claim as successor to the Earldom of Ross. The battle established the territorial limits of the Lords of the Isles and Highlanders still regard it as a victory, though the Lowland ballad also claims victory due to the death of Red Hector, one of the leading Highlanders.
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Bagpipe music for the melody appears in a manuscript of 1624-25, and "Battle of Harlaw" is mentioned as a bagpipe piece in a c. 1650 poem ("Polemo-middinia") by Drummond of Hawthornden. Collinson (1975) is of the opinion that "the tune will hardly survive the test of píobaireachd requirements," but concedes when played at the proper adagio tempo there is a faint suggestion, in the melodic progressions and repetitions, of the sound of the píobaireachd. This tune, or one by the same name, metamorphed into several other dance and song airs--see Bayard's extensive note for "Over the River to Charlie." Gratten Flood thought the piece did not bear the marks of a 15th century work but did think it bore all the characteristics of a 17th century tune [Ed.-which should be taken with a grain of salt, as Grattan Flood is notoriously unreliable]. Johnson (1984) dates the fiddle version of the tune which he prints to 1720 on stylistic grounds, however, he believes the original melody was probably written as a harp piece "immediately after the battle it commemorates, which took place in Aberdeenshire in 1411" (Johnson, p. 123). However the battle may have been originally referred to in Gaelic as "An Cath Gairbheach" or 'The Battle of the Rough Lands', although ''Gairbheach'' has since been anglicized to ''Gairioch''.
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From the harp repertoire it may have been transferred to the pipes, continues Johnson, as the entire piece is in the range of the bagpipes and is in modern pipe repertory (with small alterations) as "The Desperate Battle" (see Angus MacKay's pipe collection, for example). The title as a song appears in '''The Complaynt of Scotland''' (1548), and lyrics set to the tune appear in Allan Ramsay's '''Ever Green''' (1724). Stenhouse printed a tune he called "The Battle of Harlaw" as air his '''Illustrations''' (Edinburgh, 1853), obtained from "a folio manuscript of Scots tunes of considerable antiquity" (although his melody differed considerably from the "Harlaw" tune printed by Dow, below). One version of the ballad, as sung by the late Lucy Stewart of Fetterangus, was recorded by Scotland's Battlefield Band on their album "At the Front" (Topic 12TS381, 1978).
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Apart from manuscript collections, the first published appearance of the tune is in Daniel Dow's '''Ancient Scots Music''' (c. 1775), which is certainly the earliest date for a setting of the melody for the fiddle. The tune later appeared in Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''', although that publisher altered the second strain from the one printed by Dow. Johnson (1984) states it should be played on as many open strings on the fiddle as possible to maximize the resonance. 
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Source for notated version: '''Ancient Scots Music''' by Dow [Johnson].
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Johnson ('''Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century'''), 1984; No. 57, pgs. 135-137. Purser ('''Scotland's Music'''), 1992; Ex. 8, pg. 76.




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 Theme code Index    1H51H1 1H372
 Also known as    Desperate Battle (The), Cath Gailbheach (An)
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Pibroch
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSST
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:David Johnson
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 57, pp. 135-137
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1984
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 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   (1)   



Battle of Harlaw (The): Annotations

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X:2 T:Battle of Hara Law T:Battle of Harlaw M:C L:1/8 R:Air B:Daniel Dow - Collection of Ancient Scots Music (c. 1775, p. 28) N:A one-strain tune and twenty variation sets, the first seven of N:which are given here. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D V:1 f|d3A TB3A|df2D2 A3f|d2A TB3A|A2F2 TF3E|F3A {FA}B3F|A2E2TE3D| E2E2e3f|d2D2A3::f|d3e dcBA|d2D2 A3f|d3e dcBA|d2F2 Tc3e| c2F2 dcBA|d2E2 TB3A|B2E2 dcBA|d2D2A3::f|dcBA BABc|d2D2 A3f| dcBA BABc|d2F2Tc3e|dcBA BABc|d2E2 B3e|dcBA TfeTfe|d2D2A3:| |:f|dcBA dcBA|d2D2 A4g|dcBA dcBA|d2F2 Tc3A|defd efge|d2E2 TB3A| defd efge|d2D2A3::f|dcBA dcBA|d2D2 A3f|dcBA dcBA|d2 F2 Tc3e| dcBA dcBA|d2E2 TB3e|dcBA FATfe |d2D2A3::f|dAFA TBAFA| dAFA D3f|dAFA TBAFA|dAGA TF3A|dAFA TBAFA|dAFA E3A| dAFA dfAf|dAFd A3:||:f|dAFA DAFA |dAFA D3f|dAFA DAFA| dAGA TF3A|dAFA DAFA|dAFA E3A|dAFA DAFA|dDFG A3:| V:2 clef = bass z|D,2D,2G,2G,2|F,2F,2F,2D,2|D,2D,2G,2G,2|F,2D,2A,2A,,2|D,2D,2G,2D,2|A,,2A,,2A,,2B,,2| C,2A,,2A,2A,2|F,2D,2D,3:|


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