The Athole Highlanders Farewell to

Loch Katrine Loch Katrine (; or ) is a freshwater loch in the Trossachs area of the Scottish Highlands, east of Loch Lomond, within the historic county and registration county of Perthshire and the contemporary district of Stirling. The loch is about lon ...

is a popular Scottish

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Nor ...

march March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the second of seven months to have a length of 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of Marc ...

in 2/4 time composed by William Rose. in the 1890s. It is in the key of A Mixolydian.

James Scott Skinner James Scott Skinner (5 August 1843 – 17 March 1927) was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in Scottish traditional music, and was known as "the Strathspey Kin ...

called it "The King of Pipe Marches". It appears in the album ''The Strathspey King'' in two of the medleys, namely Bagpipe Marches and the Cradle Song medley. The music was recorded in

Maybole Maybole is a town and former burgh of barony and police burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It had an estimated population of in . It is situated south of Ayr and southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The town is bypass ...

Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...

in 1963 by the

School of Scottish Studies The School of Scottish Studies ( gd, Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba, sco, Scuil o Scots Studies) was founded in 1951 at the University of Edinburgh. It holds an archive of approximately 33,000 field recordings of traditional music, song and other lo ...

. It was included in a collection, ''Traditional Fiddle Music Of Cape Breton Volume 1: Mabou Coal Mines.'' It is in a historic recording from London made before July 1898, played on the bagpipes, possibly by the piper John MacKenzie Rogan or Henry Forsyth. It is also in a historic recording of traditional fiddle and accordion music from Canada.

References

External links

University of Aberdeen: facsimile of manuscript, with audio file of tune

Tune Archive: transcribed music, with annotations
{{DEFAULTSORT:Athole Highlanders Farewell To Loch Katrine British military marches Compositions for bagpipe Year of song missing 1890s songs