Annotation:Four and Twenty Highlandmen (2)
X:1 T:Four and Twenty Highlandmen [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Alexander Mackay – A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes… B:Chiefly composed by Alexander Mackay, Musician Islay (c. 1822, pp. 23-24) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487947 N:Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Elinor Campbell of Islay and Shawfield. N:Mackay was born c. 1775 and was a fiddler-composer from Islay. Many of his N:tune titles are reflect Islay settings. N:Printed in Glasgow by J. MacFadyen, 30 Wilson St. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A a|A/A/A (cA) eAcA|B=ggd BGGB|A/A/A (cA) eAcA |Beed cAA:| g|(ae)ca eaca|B=ggd BGGg|(ae)ca eaca|Beed cBAg| (ae)ca eaca|B=ggd BGGg|afge fdec|dBe>d cAA||
FOUR AND TWENTY HIGHLANDMEN [2]. AKA and see "When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun." Scottish, (Pipe) Reel (cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune sounds and plays like a pipe reel, but was first published in Islay fiddler-composer biography:Alexander Mackay's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes (Glasgow, c, 1822). Highland piper David Glen also published a strathspey version of the tune as "When You Go to the Hill Take Your Gun," in Book 1 of his multi-volume collection (1876).
