Annotation:Duke of Roxburghe's Farewell to the Blackmount Forest
X:1 T:Duke of Roxburgh’s Farewell to the Black Mount Forest C:Angus MacKay (1853) M:C| L:1/8 R:Pipe Quickstep B:Alexander Glen – “Caledonian Repository of Music for the Great B:Highland Bagpipe” (1860, No. 46, p. 38) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Amix a2|A>AAB c2 BA|cAce g2 ea|e2 af ecAB|c2 BB B2g2| GAAB c2 B<A|cAce g2 e<a|e2 af ecBA|c2 A A A2:| |:g2|a2 da e2 ce|fefg a2 gf|e2 af ecAB|c2 BB B2g2| |1a2 da e2 ce|fefg a2 gf|e2 af ecAB|c2A A A2:| |2 GAAB c2 BA|cAce g2 ea|e2 af ecAc|c2 A A A2||
DUKE OF ROXBURGHE'S FAREWELL TO THE BLACKMOUNT FOREST. Scottish, March (whole or cut time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB' (Glen): AA'BB'CC'DD' (Cranford). The "Duke of Roxburghe's Farewell to the Blackmount Forest" was composed by piper wikipedia:Angus_MacKay (1813-1859), one of his last recorded pieces, composed in 1853. MacKay was Queen Victoria's first piper, preceding William Ross, the Queen's favorite. In 1854 MacKay was institutionalized in his later life, and died after escaping the asylum at Dumfries.
Black Mount (also Blackmount) is a mountain range located in Argyll and Bute, and Blackmount Forest is a deer park (now part of the Glen Nevis and Glen Coe scenic area). Black Mount Forest Lodge was a famous hunting lodge nearby.
