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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.

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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