Annotation:Glendaruel Highlanders

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X:1 T:Glendaruel Highlanders’ Quickstep C:Pipe Major A. Fettes, Aberdeen M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Pipe March B:David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 1 (1876, No. 1, p. 1) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A e|A>AA A>Bc|e>de f2e|c>BA f<af|e3 e>fa| A>AAA>Bc|e>de f2e|f<ac e>dB|A3 A2:| e/d/|c2A c<eB|c2A A>ce|f2A f<af|e3 e>fa| c2A c<eB|c2A A>ce|f>ec e>dB|A3 A2 e/d/| c2A c<eB|c2A A>ce|f2A f<af|e3 e>fg| a>cc c<fe|f>BB B<fe|f<ac e>dB|A3 A2||



GLENDARUEL HIGHLANDERS. AKA and see "Campbelltown Loch." Scottish, March (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. The melody was written by Pipe Major A. Fettes for the family of MacDougall-Gillies (d. 1925), a 19th century champion piper who was a native of Glendaruel, Argyll (MacDougll-Gillies won the Oban and Inverness Gold Medals in 1884 and 1885 respectively). The march was recorded in 1911 by Pipe Major David Laing of H.M. Scots Guards, on Lxo-1269 A22145, the second tune in a medley that also included the marches "Midlothian Pipe Band (The)" and "Hot Punch."


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Printed sources : - David Glen (David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 1), 1876; No. 1, p. 1. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 3), 1988; p. 36. Scots Guards: Standard Settings of Pipe Music, vol. 1, p. 88, No. 189 (p. 96 in first edition, 1954).

Recorded sources : - Tradition 2118, Jim MacLeod & His Band – "Scottish Dances: Jigs, Waltzes and Reels" (1978).




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