Annotation:Lieutenant Murray's Welcome to the 79th
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LIEUTENANT MURRAY'S WELCOME TO THE 79th. AKA - "Murray's Welcome." Scottish, Pipe March (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Composed by Duncan Campbell, appearing in Logan's Collection, Book 3 (c. 1903). The 79th Regiment is popularly known as the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, the only single-battalion regiment in the Victorian British army between 1881 and 1897, and one which mustered a number of Englishman in its ranks. The first part is rather close to Bayard's (1981) Pennsylvania-collected "General Taylor's March."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Hardie (Beauties of the North), 1986; p. 24. Logan's Collection, c. 1903; No. 20, p. 16. Ross (Army Manual of Bagpipe Tunes), BT, Book II, 1936, p. 15.
Recorded sources: The Scottish Fiddle Festival Orchestra - "Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music" (1978).