Annotation:Cameron Highlanders (The)

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 CAMERON HIGHLANDERS, THE. Scottish, Quickstep March. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Brody): AABBCCD (Hunter). A well-known march composed in the 1880's by J. Scott Skinner, first printed in his Logie Collection. Skinner titled the piece after the famous Highland regiment in which his brother Sandy served for eleven years (1857-1868) in the middle of the Victorian era. Sandy survived this experience and became a dancing master patroned by Sir Charles Forbes of New Strathdon. Noted as having been played by him in 1921 concert tours as one of the tunes in the romantically named set "Spey's Fury's" (Alburger). In Ireland the tune is rendered as a barn dance.  Source for notated version: Boys of the Lough (Scotland/Ireland) [Brody].  Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 61. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 347. Skinner (The Scottish Violinist); p. 30.  Recorded sources: Philo 1026, The Boys of the Lough- "First Album." Shanachie 78030, Danú - "Think Before You Think" (2000). Topic 12T280, J. Scott Skinner- "The Strathspey King."

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