Bonawee Highlanders

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Theme code Index	1553 1523
Also known as
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Pipe Major John McColl
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Pipe
Meter/Rhythm	March/Marche
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	3 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABBCCD
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Scots Guards vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number
Year of publication/Date of MS
Artist	Biography:Ronan Martin
Title of recording	Ronan Martin
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Wildcat Records WILDCD 101
Year recorded	2008
Media
Score ()

BONAWE HIGHLANDERS. Scottish, Pipe March (6/8 time). A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCD. A very popular pipe march often attributed to D. Bowman, but actually composed by Pipe Major John McColl (Nigel Gatherer).

Printed sources: Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 2), 1988; p. 23. Norris (Glendaruel Collection of Bagpipe Music), 1951; p. 18. Queen's Own: Standard Settings of Pipe Music, 1963; p. 70. Scots Guards: Standard Settings of Pipe Music, vol. 1, 1954; p. 90.

Recorded sources: Wildcat Records WILDCD 101, Ronan Martin – "Ronan Martin" (2008).

X:271
T:Bonawe Highlanders, The
C:Pipe Major John McColl  [AK: almost always attributed to D. Bowman]
S:My notebooks - forgotten where I got it
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:A
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