{"id":3768,"date":"2018-01-01T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T03:04:09","slug":"tune-of-the-month-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the Month January 2018 = Lament for the Old Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceolsean.net\/content\/Logan\/Book06\/Book06%2038.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lament for the Old Volunteers<\/a> (J. MacBeth) is January 2018&#8217;s Tune of the Month.<\/p>\n<p>I originally came across this tune on one of the albums I listened to as a teenager when I was learning the bagpipes. I&#8217;m surprised the tape still works I played it so many times! The album is &#8220;Proud Heritage&#8221; by The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of The Royal Highland Fusiliers. The tune title is given as The 74th&#8217;s Slow March on the album but the original tune is credited in the liner notes. The arrangement below is a slightly modified version of the tune as presented on the album. 6\/8 time seemed best when transcribing, though the original published source as linked above is in common time (4\/4).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lament_for_the_old_volunteers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lament for the Old Volunteers (The 74th&#8217;s Slows March)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/74ths-sweet-creeks.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">74ths Slow March, Sweet Maid of Mull, Farewell to the Creeks<\/a> (Colin Kyo bagpipes, Ezeedrone bass, Redwood tenors) &#8211; a recording from a few years ago so the arrangement is slightly different<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3768-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/74ths-sweet-creeks.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/74ths-sweet-creeks.mp3\">http:\/\/www.patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/74ths-sweet-creeks.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>All the albums I listened to while learning had a big affect on my resulting repertoire, and this album was no exception. P\/M Gavin Stoddart&#8217;s solo MSR of 74th&#8217;s Farewell to Edinburgh, Shepherd&#8217;s Crook, and Lochiel&#8217;s Away to France is a favorite, I love all 3 of these tunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lament for the Old Volunteers (J. MacBeth) is January 2018&#8217;s Tune of the Month. I originally came across this tune on one of the albums I listened to as a teenager when I was learning the bagpipes. I&#8217;m surprised the tape still works I played it so many times! The album is &#8220;Proud Heritage&#8221; by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tune of the Month January 2018 = Lament for the Old Volunteers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tune-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrickmclaurin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}