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S 09 E 18 Waterloo and Peninsular War tunes part 2 With a track from Jason Rouse


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Tunes:

Jason Rouse: Napoleon’s Grand March
Stables: Napoleon’s Grand March
Angus MacKay: Up and Waur them A’ Willie, The Haughs of Cromdale,
Robert Miller: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, Lochiel’s March (Pibroch of Donald Dhu)
John Gow: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
Donald MacLeod: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
John McLachlan: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
David Glen: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, The Highland Brigade at Waterloo (2nd setting), Pibroch of Donald Dhu,
Donald MacDonald: Piobaireachd Dhomnuill Duibh (Black Donald Balloch of the Isles),
John Grant: The Gathering of the Clans,

Readings:

Henry John Thoroton Hildyard: Historical record of the 71st regiment Highland light infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's highlanders, up to the year 1876
C.A. Malcolm: The Piper in Peace and War
Allan MacDonald Thesis: The Relationship Between Pibroch and Gaelic Song: Its Implications on the Performance Style of the Pibroch Urlar

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Checkout Jason's Album Heavy Metal on Bandcamp:

https://pipingrouse.bandcamp.com/album/miotal-trom-heavy-metal

Be sure to come check out the Zoom Tune Session Thursday at 6:30 PM US Central time:

https://und.zoom.us/j/95809246209

Here is the Facebook Even for the Session:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EHr9pYUKD/

Sources:

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Late 19thc: Napoleon’s March From Henry Stables Cumbria Manuscript by way of Chris Partington and Traditional Tune Archive:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_March

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1854: Up and Waur Them A’ Willie from Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007223

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The Highland Brigade at Waterloo

1858: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo

From Miller Manuscript

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1817: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from Gow’s 4th Repository

https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)

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1854: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from John McLachlan’s The Piper’s Assistant https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105010534

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1870s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from the Glen Edinburgh Collection (Book 2)

https://ceolsean.net/content/EdinColl/EdinColl_TOC.html

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1890s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from David Glen’s Collection of Highland Pipe Music (Book 9)

https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html

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Pibroch of Donald Dbhu

1821: Pibroch of Donald Dbhu from Donald MacDonald https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hdpWAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false

Check out Alasdair Boyd’s Singing on Tobar an Dualchais:
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/44689?l=en

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1858: Lochiel’s March

From Robert Miller’s Manuscript

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1880s: Pibroch of Donald Dhu from book five of David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music

https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html

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1840: Donald Dhu, or Lochiel’s March from Davie’s Caledonian Repository

I didn’t play this on the episode
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104999413

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1816: Pibroch of Donald Dubh from Alexander Campbell’s Albyn’s Anthology (Lyrics by Walter Scott)

I didn’t play this on the episode
https://archive.org/details/albynsanthologyo00camp_0/page/82/mode/2up?view=theater

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1828: The Haughs of Cromdale

From Donald MacDonald
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://ceolsean.net/content/McDlight/Book02/Book02%2020.pdf

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1844: The Haughs of Cromdale

From Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant
https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/Book02/Book02%209a.pdf

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1920: The Gathering of the Clans by PM John Grant from “The Pipes of War” a Collection of Original Pipe Tunes Compose during the Great War 1914-1918 https://ceolsean.net/content/Pwar/Book01/Book01%2014a.pdf

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Readings:

George Clarke:

1876: Excerpt from Historical record of the 71st regiment Highland light infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's highlanders, up to the year 1876 by Henry John Thornton Hildyard
https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord00hildiala

'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-533-12
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "The Highland Piper, George Clarke" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9cac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Pipe Major Cameron:

1927: Excerpt from The Piper In Peace And War
By C. A. Malcolm, M.A., Ph.D.
https://electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/peaseandwar15.htm

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1995: Thesis: The Relationship Between Pibroch and Gaelic Song: Its Implications on the Performance Style of the Pibroch Urlar by Allan MacDonald’s

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/allanmacdonald/

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