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S 9 E 04 Celtic Melodies Mail Coach and Angus MacKay's High B Manuscript


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Tunes:

Anderson: The Mail Coach
Highlander: “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb”, “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I,
Angus MacKay: Wha’ll be King but Charlie, Lilla’s A Lady, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese, Paddy Rafferty’s With Variations, Fowler’s Rant, Lady Ellinor Campbell, No. XIII Pipe Reel, “Gur mise tha suncach” “Tis me that’s Happy”, No. 22 Pipe Reel “Lochiel’s Awa To France”
Hamilton: Lilla’s a Lady
Alexander MacKay: Lady Ellinor Campbell’s Reel, Miss Catherine Campbell Ardmore’s Strathspey,
Andrew O’Sullivan: Black Grouse
William Vickers: Lochail’s Real

Sources:

Cover Art:

42nd Highlander Playing a Frenchman as a Bagpipe:
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232077/

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I read from Hugh Cheape’s Delightful Tartan Book, you should read it:

https://archive.org/details/tartanhighlandha0000chea

Sources:

1820s: Anderson’s Mail Coach from Anderson's pocket companion of the most approved Highland strathspeys, country dances, &c. for the German flute, fife, hautboy, & violin

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105006453

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1815: “A ghruagach an leadain” “Nymph with the beautiful hair.” “Gu’n d’thug mi suil air an trupa ghlas.” “I cast an eye on the grey troop”, “Chaidh mi thun na traigh.” “I wen to the Ebb.” from Celtic Melodies by Robert Purdie

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012382

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1830s?: Wha’ll Be King but Charlie, Lilla’s a Lady, Voulez vous danser Madamoiselle or the Portuguese Dance from Angus MacKay’s Manuscript

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1846: Lilla’s a Lady from Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 2 (1846, p. 68)

https://archive.org/details/bub_man_0d3e53b425fd9604ed8120afba639d35/page/n79/mode/2up?view=theater

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1822: “Gur Trom, tom a tha mi” Sad, Sad am I, “Domhnull Ban” Fair Donald.

from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012261

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1833: Lady Ellinor Campbell

from Celtic Melodies (the second one) by a Highlander

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1822: Lady Ellinor Campbell’s Reel

from A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes Arranged for the Piano Forte Chiefly composed by Alexander MacKay
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104488057

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1815: Pipe Reel, “’S tric mi smuaineach ort.” “Oft am I thinking of thee.” from Celtic Melodies by Robert Purdie

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012316

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1822: Miss Catherine Campbell Ardmore’s Strathspey from A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes Arranged for the Piano Forte Chiefly composed by Alexander MacKay

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104487969

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1822: “Ge d’ tha mi gun Chrodh gun aighean” “Though I am without Cows or Querys” and “Gur mise tha suncach” “Tis me that’s Happy” from Celtic Melodies by a Highlander

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012272

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1815: “C’ arson nach rachinn cuide riut.” “Why would I not go with you.” and Pipe Reel from Celtic Melodies by Robert Purdie

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105012371

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1776: Lochail’s Real from William Vicker’s Manuscript

http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0306600.jpg

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