Annotation:Marsail Lochinalie

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MARSAIL LOCHINALIE. AKA - "Màrsail Loch an Eala," "Lochnell's March." Scottish, Fiddle Pibroch (3/4 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCDEFG. A programmatic piece that musically invokes a battle. See also Oswald's "Highland Battle (A), a similarly-structured piece that also has been characterized, like "Mairsail Lochinalie," as a 'fiddle pibroch.'

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 11), 1760; p. 125.

Recorded sources: Rideout - "Scotland's Fiddle Piobaireachd, vol. 1" (2010).

See also listing at:
Hear the tune played by Bonnie Rideout on youtube.com [1] [2]




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