Annotation:MacDonald Lord of the Isles

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MACDONALD, LORD OF THE ISLES (Mac Dhomhnuill mòr nan Eilean). Scottish, Slow Air (3/4 time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. This tune "is, perhaps, the most ancient air in this volume, and was communicated through the gentlemen mentioned in the Prospectus. It is remarkable that the first measure of it is the air sung in the North to the very ancient Scottish ballad of 'Sir James the Rose'" (Fraser).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 217, p. 89.

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