Annotation:MacDonald's March (The)
X:1 T:MacDonald's March, The M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Pipe March B:William Ross -- Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1869, No. 16, p. 67) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Amix e/d/|cB/c/ AA/A/|c/A/c/e/ ae/f/|ga/e/ gd/e/|g/d/B/A/ G/A/B/G/| cB/c/ AA/A/|c/A/c/e/ ae/f/|g/d/B/A/ G/A/B/d/|cA A:| |:e|A/<A/a g/e/a|g/e/f/e/ ae/f/|ga/e/ gd/e/|g/d/B/A/ G/A/B/G/| A/<A/a g/e/a|g/e/f/e/ ae/f/|g/d/B/A/ G/A/B/d/|cA A:|]
MACDONALD'S MARCH, THE. Scottish, March (2/4 time) or Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Ross): AABB' (Perlman): AABBCC (Kerr): AA'BBCC' (Hart & Sandall). The melody entered French-Canadian tradition either through Cape Breton sources, especially fiddler Joseph Cormier, or from Don Messer's recordings. Hart & Sandall call it "a recent arrival" to Quebec tradition, and it is usually nowadays played as a reel and not a march.
