Annotation:Earl of Moira's Welcome to Scotland (The)

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 EARL OF MOIRA'S WELCOME TO SCOTLAND. AKA and see "Countess of Loudon's Strathspey," "Highland a' Choille," "Loudon's/Louden's Bonnie Woods (and Braes)." Scottish, March (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD. Composed by Duncan MacIntyre and used by the weaver-poet Robert Tannahill for his song "Louden's Bonnie Woods." Little is known about the expatriate Scot D. MacIntyre except he was a dancing master in London around the year 1795, and later spent some years in India, probably around the same time as Earl Moira, who was Governor-General of the subcontinent in 1816 (John Glen {1895} thinks Duncan may have served as a Master of Ceremonies to the Governor-General's Court). Tannahill's words are thought to commemorate the parting of the Earl from his young wife at the time he left to assume the post. Arranged as a rondo for piano by an Austro-Hungarian, Christoff Schertky, who wrote in the Scottish style and published in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1823. The march was printed on a song sheet by the firm of Gow & Shepherd (Edinburgh), and also appears in Edward Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. 2 (p. 4), published in 1817 in New York. See also the Donegal variant "Highland a' Choille."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 111, p. 149.  Recorded sources:

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