Category Archives: March
Brian Boru’s March (Aaeol)
The march entitled “Brian Boru’s” is in jig time (6/8), and while its origin is unknown it dates to at least the 1840s, but could be considerably older. There are accounts of various kinds of dances using this tune, and some seem fairly complex reaching a hey-day perhaps around the 1860s. Nonetheless, as a march […]
Atholl Highlanders (Amix)
The four-part jig “Atholl Highlanders” is originally a Shetland tune, and originally called “The Three Sisters.” I don’t think anyone has called it by the original name for a very long time, however. It is a characteristic Scots pipe march, though there are some odd things about it. As a pipe march it is known […]