Annotation:Captain Angus L. MacDonald

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CAPTAIN ANGUS L. MACDONALD. Canadian, Slow March (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Pipe Major Fraser Holmes in honor of his close friend MacDonald, "the last Gaelic speaking Premier of Nova Scotia and a veteran of World War I" (Shears).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 75.

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