Piobaireachd Society Book 16

The music has been taken from out of print publications of Charles Thomason, William Ross and G F Ross, and from the manuscripts of  Colin Campbell, Angus MacKay, John Smith, John MacDougall Gillies and Ronald MacKenzie. It contains both known tunes such as Glengarry’s Lament, including a setting from the manuscript of Ronald MacKenzie, and less known tunes such as Lament for Colonel Forbes from Thomason’s Ceol Mor and Nameless from the John MacDougall Gillies MS (96).  The scores are printed in PS style, with editorial and historical notes.  The editors are Ronald Clark, Alan Forbes and Andrew Wright.

Tune List:

• The Brother’s Lament

•  The Cave of Gold

•  Cluny MacPherson’s March

•  Cluny MacPherson’s Salute (No. 2)

•  Colin MacRae of Inverinate’s Lament

•  The Fairy Flag

•  The Frisky Lover

•  The Piper’s Salute to his Master

•  Glengarry’s Lament – setting No. 1 (from Angus MacKay)

•  Glengarry’s Lament – setting No. 2 (from Ronald MacKenzie)

•  Hail to My Country

•  Hector Roy McLean’s Lament

•  Lament for Colonel Forbes

•  Lament for the Great Supper

•  Lord Berisdale’s Salute

•   Miss Mabel Thomason’s Salute

•  Nameless (Cheho tra o hodro) – Campbell  Canntaireachd  Volume 2 No. 33

•  Nameless – from John MacDougall Gillies’s Manuscript

•  Nameless (Hindo hindo) – No. 37 from Angus MacKay’s MSS Volume 2

•  Rev. Dr Norman McLeod’s Lament

•  The Sword’s Lament.