Annotation:Hymn to the Saviour

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 HYMN TO THE SAVIOUR (Laoidh an t-Slanuighear). AKA and see "Ailleagan." Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "This air has Gaelic words of various merit, and is called by Mr. Campbell, in his Albyn's Anthology, the 'Ailleagan', a name he also bestows on another air of the few he exhibits; but the best Gaelic poem to it seen by the editor, is a hymn to the Saviour, by Dugald Buchanan, a native of Rannoch" (Fraser).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 56, p. 20.  Recorded sources:

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