Annotation:Highland Troop (The)

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 HIGHLAND TROOP, THE (An Trupa Ghaidhealach). Scottish, Jig or Pastoral Air. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Highland Troop is the editor's composition, intended as a salute to the Black Watch and others, on their return as CONQUERORS from Egypt. Its recent date cannot detract from its character as a Highland melody, he having comparatively little knowledge of any other species of music" (Fraser).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 81, p. 30. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935.  Recorded sources:

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