Annotation:Kilcoy's March

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KILCOY'S MARCH. Scottish, March (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. From Pipe Major William Ross's collection, where it is noted that the tune is "Very Old". Ross was a Pipe Major in the Black Watch from 1849 to 1854 and then served as a piper to Queen Victoria from 1854 until his death in 1891.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Ross (Collection [of] Pipe Music), 1885; no. 252, p. 194.

Recorded sources: Flying Fish FF-299, Battlefield Band – "There's a Buzz" (1982).

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