Annotation:Lord Lennox's March

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LORD LENNOX'S MARCH. Scottish, March. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the James Gillespie's Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), and was printed by Edinburgh music publisher Neil Steward in A Select Collection of Scots English Irish and Foreign Airs Jiggs & Marches (1788). Under the title "Lord Linaxce's March" the tune can be found in the c. 1780-c. 1804 music manuscript copybook of musician John Fife, who may have been from Perthshire, and who may also have made entries at sea (the ms. contains references to Battles in Caribbean and the Mediterranean).

"Lord Lennox's March" is mentioned by Robert Burns is his poem "Halloween":

Whistling Lord Lennox's March
To keep his spirits up.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Mooney (Choicest Bagpipe Music from the Scottish Borders and Lowlands).

Recorded sources:

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