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OUR HIGHLAND QUEEN. AKA - "Oor Highland Queen." Scottish, "Pastoral Air" or Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. One of the six hundred or so compositions by the great Scottish fiddler-composer James Scott Skinner (1843-1927). Composed in honor of Queen Victoria, it originally appeared in his Miller o' Hirn collection. In 1858 Skinner, a fifteen-year-old violinist with the boy-troupe Dr. Mark's Little Men, performed before the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and ten years later was a dancing master to the children of her tenants in her Highland vacation manor, Balmoral, Scotland. He included it as one of the tunes in his 1921 concert set romantically entitled "Warblings from the Hills." Skinner's directions say it should be played with "grandeur and expression."

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Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 156. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 37. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 14.

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