Annotation:Gladly Would I Go
Tune properties and standard notation
GLADLY WOULD I GO. Scottish (?), March (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. O'Neill (1922) says: "This fine old march was memorized from the playing of William McLean a famous Highland piper much admired in Chicago some fifty years ago. The tune in almost identical setting was included in a book of pipe music, published at Glasgow about 1825 under two names: The Duke of Athol's March and a long Gaelic title expressive of romance and chivalry. Its spirited swing and characteristic cadences, no less than its Gaelic title indicate an Irish origin." "Cold Wind from Ben Nevyss" is a similar tune.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 79.
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