Annotation:Rebel War Song (The)

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REBEL WAR SONG (Eiridh Na Finnacha' Gaelach). AKA and see "Jacobite War Song (The)." Scottish, March (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Hunter (1979) remarks that the tune is a "well-known Gaelic song praising the Highland clans who joined in the rebellion." The melody was used as the vehicle for the song "Sound, Pibroch, Sound," published in songsters of the first half of the 19th century. In Cornelius Soule Cartée's song collection The Souvenier Minstrel: A Choice Collection of the Most Admired Songs (1833) the music is attributed to "Turnbull", who may have been composer biography:John Turnbull. Curiously, the tune is unattributed in Manson's Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol 1 (1844), which has a number of tunes clearly credited to John Turnbull.

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Printed sources: Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 342.

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