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FEATURE ARTICLE (from PIPING WORLD March 2010)
LAMENT FOR GLENGARRY:
the last of the Highland chiefs
By Bruce Campbell
THE earliest published reference for
this tune is Angus MacKay's
'Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd'
(1838).
But unlike many Piobaireachd which
have both an obscure authorship
and history the background to this
tune is extremely well known.
Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell was the fifteenth chief of
the Glengarry branch of Clan Donald.
He was the last of the Highland chiefs to live in the
grandiose style of his forebears and did so in an era
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