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<span>[[When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun]]," i</span> Scottish, (Pipe) Reel (cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune sounds and plays like a pipe reel, but was first published in Islay fiddler-composer [[biography:Alexander Mackay]]'s '''Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes '''(Glasgow, c, 1822). Highland piper David<span>Glen also published a strathspey version of the tune as "[[When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun]]," in Book 1 of his multi-volume collection (1876).</span> | |||
|f_printed_sources=<span>David Glen ('''David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 14'''), c. 1892; No. 10, p. 6. </span>Alexander Mackay ('''A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes'''), Glasgow, c. 1822; pp. 23-24. | |||
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X:1 T:Four and Twenty Highlandmen [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Alexander Mackay – A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes… B:Chiefly composed by Alexander Mackay, Musician Islay (c. 1822, pp. 23-24) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487947 N:Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Elinor Campbell of Islay and Shawfield. N:Mackay was born c. 1775 and was a fiddler-composer from Islay. Many of his N:tune titles are reflect Islay settings. N:Printed in Glasgow by J. MacFadyen, 30 Wilson St. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A a|A/A/A (cA) eAcA|B=ggd BGGB|A/A/A (cA) eAcA |Beed cAA:| g|(ae)ca eaca|B=ggd BGGg|(ae)ca eaca|Beed cBAg| (ae)ca eaca|B=ggd BGGg|afge fdec|dBe>d cAA||
FOUR AND TWENTY HIGHLANDMEN [2]. "When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun
When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun," i Scottish, (Pipe) Reel (cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune sounds and plays like a pipe reel, but was first published in Islay fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Mackay's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes (Glasgow, c, 1822). Highland piper DavidGlen also published a strathspey version of the tune as "When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun," in Book 1 of his multi-volume collection (1876).
