Annotation:Highlander's Farewell to Waterloo

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HIGHLANDER'S FAREWELL TO WATERLOO. Scottish, Slow March (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. With no 'c' or 'f' notes in this 'A' tonic melody the mode is somewhat in question, and could be played in either dorian or mixolydian.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Morison (Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 1), c. 1882; No. 29, p. 15.

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