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'''LORD MACDONALD'S HIGHLANDERS.''' AKA - "[[March for the 76th Regiment Lord Macdonald's Highlanders]]." Scottish, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The march appears in John Reid's '''A Set of Marches for two clarinets, hautboys, or German flutes, two horns & a bassoon,''' published by Robert Bremner in 1778 in London. It later appeared in Timothy Olmstead's '''Martial Music''' (Albany, 1807), without the horn parts. | '''LORD MACDONALD'S HIGHLANDERS.''' AKA - "[[March for the 76th Regiment Lord Macdonald's Highlanders]]." Scottish, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The march appears in John Reid's '''A Set of Marches for two clarinets, hautboys, or German flutes, two horns & a bassoon,''' published by Robert Bremner in 1778 in London. It later appeared in Timothy Olmstead's '''Martial Music''' (Albany, 1807), without the horn parts. Olmstead was a Connecticut psalmodist and composer who also served as both as a fifer and as a member of a Connecticut regimental band of music, and his volume of martial music may represent music he was familiar with during his service in the American Revolution (Raoul Camus believes it includes both American and British pieces). It was composed by John Reid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reid_%28British_Army_officer%29] for the 76th Regiment of Foot. Reid, ultimately to become a general, was an officer who fought the Jacobites and later served in France. He subsequently turned up in North America with the Black Watch in 1755 and took part in the capture of Montreal. In addition to his military prowess, Reid was also an accomplished and sensitive player on the German flute and a composer of merit. | ||
[[File:Reid.jpg|200px|thumb|left|General John Reid (1721-1807)]] Reid served under Lord Amherst, who was commander-in-chief of the Royal Army in America when Reid was stationed there. He petitioned Amherst for help in retaining a colonelcy of a regiment not likely to be reduced when war ended, citing his services and loss of considerable lands he had purchased in Vermont. | |||
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LORD MACDONALD'S HIGHLANDERS. AKA - "March for the 76th Regiment Lord Macdonald's Highlanders." Scottish, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The march appears in John Reid's A Set of Marches for two clarinets, hautboys, or German flutes, two horns & a bassoon, published by Robert Bremner in 1778 in London. It later appeared in Timothy Olmstead's Martial Music (Albany, 1807), without the horn parts. Olmstead was a Connecticut psalmodist and composer who also served as both as a fifer and as a member of a Connecticut regimental band of music, and his volume of martial music may represent music he was familiar with during his service in the American Revolution (Raoul Camus believes it includes both American and British pieces). It was composed by John Reid [1] for the 76th Regiment of Foot. Reid, ultimately to become a general, was an officer who fought the Jacobites and later served in France. He subsequently turned up in North America with the Black Watch in 1755 and took part in the capture of Montreal. In addition to his military prowess, Reid was also an accomplished and sensitive player on the German flute and a composer of merit.
Reid served under Lord Amherst, who was commander-in-chief of the Royal Army in America when Reid was stationed there. He petitioned Amherst for help in retaining a colonelcy of a regiment not likely to be reduced when war ended, citing his services and loss of considerable lands he had purchased in Vermont.
Source for notated version: General John Reid's Marches, A Collection (London, 1795) [Miller].
Printed sources: Bremner (A Set of Marches), 1778; pp. 28-29. Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 345, p. 202.
Recorded sources: New World Records 80276-2, "Music of the American Revolution: The Birth of Liberty."
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