S 09 E 16 Waterloo Tunes part 1 Johnny Cope and the 71st Regiment of foot
June 17th, 2025
1 hr 11 mins 10 secs
Season 9
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Tunes:
John Gow: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo
William Gunn: 71st Highlander’s quick step, Johnny Cope,
Robert Miller: Johny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)
Thomas Glen: Johnny Cope,
Angus MacKay: Johnny Cope,
David Glen: Johnny Cope, DG setting for Johnny Cope,
O’Farrell: Johnny Cope,
Margaret Barry: Johnny Cope,
Patrick MacDonald: A Lament (I’m wounded),
Readings:
Thomas Pockocke,
Sergeant-Major Dickson,
Victor Hugo,
Sources:
Episode Cover Art: 'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-533-12
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1817: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo (Eb)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)
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1848: 71st Highlander’s Quick Step From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html
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1838: Johnny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning)
From Robert Miller Manuscript
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1843: Johnny Cope From Thomas Glen’s “A New and Complete Tutor for the Highland Bagpipe”
https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html
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1843: Johnny Cope From Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant
https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/PipeAsst_TOC.html
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1848: Johnny Cope From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html
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1870s: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2
https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html
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1880s?: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 6
https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html
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1810: Johnny Cope From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion vol 3
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf
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2002: Johnny Cope from Margaret Barry:
https://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/johnnycopebarrynf.html
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1784: I’m Wounded (A Lament) from Patrick MacDonald’s Vocal Airs: (From Perthshire section)
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=RA1-PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Written Accounts
Thomas Pococke Journal of a soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh: 1819). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039571487&seq=5
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Seargant Major Dickson, “The Greys at Waterloo: Reminiscences of the Last Survivor of the Famous Charge” Mackenzie MacBride Ed., With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns (Francis Griffiths, London: 1911).
https://archive.org/details/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft/page/136/mode/2up
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Victor Hugo, “The Battle of Waterloo” Rossiter Johnson Ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, (The National Alumni, 1905).
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41048/page/n389/mode/2up
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