Annotation:Plundering the Lowlands

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PLUNDERING THE LOWLANDS. AKA and see "Spraith of the Lowlands now Graze in the Glens (The)," "Plunder of the Lowlands now Graze in the Glens," "Crodh laoigh nam bodach" (Old Man’s Calf (The)). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This tune "preserves the memorial of one of those predatory excursions which the Highlanders were in the habit of making to carry off the cattle of the neighboring low countries; considered, from the ignorance of the times, rather commendable as an act of prowess, than reprehensible as an act of aggression. He believes the air peculiar to his native country south of Loch Ness" (Fraser). See also note for “annotation:Crodh laoigh nam bodach” for more on this tune.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 73, p. 26.

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