Annotation:Joseph MacDonald's Jig

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JOSEPH MACDONALD'S JIG. Scottish, Jig. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. This traditional bagpipe jig is named for a 18th century music compiler. The second two parts in the Battlefield Band book were composed by the band's piper at the time, Duncan MacGillivray.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Battlefield Band (Forward with Scotland's Past), 1988; p. 25.

Recorded sources: Battlefield Band - "Home is Where the Van is" ().




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