S 09 E 18 Waterloo and Peninsular War tunes part 2 With a track from Jason Rouse
July 5th, 2025
1 hr 18 mins 14 secs
Season 9
Your Hosts
Tags
About this Episode
Tunes:
Jason Rouse: Napoleon’s Grand March
Stables: Napoleon’s Grand March
Angus MacKay: Up and Waur them A’ Willie, The Haughs of Cromdale,
Robert Miller: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, Lochiel’s March (Pibroch of Donald Dhu)
John Gow: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
Donald MacLeod: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
John McLachlan: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
David Glen: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo, The Highland Brigade at Waterloo (2nd setting), Pibroch of Donald Dhu,
Donald MacDonald: Piobaireachd Dhomnuill Duibh (Black Donald Balloch of the Isles),
John Grant: The Gathering of the Clans,
Readings:
Henry John Thoroton Hildyard: Historical record of the 71st regiment Highland light infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's highlanders, up to the year 1876
C.A. Malcolm: The Piper in Peace and War
Allan MacDonald Thesis: The Relationship Between Pibroch and Gaelic Song: Its Implications on the Performance Style of the Pibroch Urlar
+X+
Checkout Jason's Album Heavy Metal on Bandcamp:
https://pipingrouse.bandcamp.com/album/miotal-trom-heavy-metal
Be sure to come check out the Zoom Tune Session Thursday at 6:30 PM US Central time:
https://und.zoom.us/j/95809246209
Here is the Facebook Even for the Session:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EHr9pYUKD/
Sources:
+X+X+X+
Late 19thc: Napoleon’s March From Henry Stables Cumbria Manuscript by way of Chris Partington and Traditional Tune Archive:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_March
+X+X+
1854: Up and Waur Them A’ Willie from Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007223
+X+X+
The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
1858: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo
From Miller Manuscript
+X+
1817: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from Gow’s 4th Repository
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)
+X+
1854: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from John McLachlan’s The Piper’s Assistant https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105010534
+X+
1870s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from the Glen Edinburgh Collection (Book 2)
https://ceolsean.net/content/EdinColl/EdinColl_TOC.html
+X+
1890s: The Highland Brigade at Waterloo from David Glen’s Collection of Highland Pipe Music (Book 9)
https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html
+X+X+X+
Pibroch of Donald Dbhu
1821: Pibroch of Donald Dbhu from Donald MacDonald https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hdpWAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false
Check out Alasdair Boyd’s Singing on Tobar an Dualchais:
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/44689?l=en
+X+
1858: Lochiel’s March
From Robert Miller’s Manuscript
+X+
1880s: Pibroch of Donald Dhu from book five of David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music
https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html
+X+
1840: Donald Dhu, or Lochiel’s March from Davie’s Caledonian Repository
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104999413
+X+
1816: Pibroch of Donald Dubh from Alexander Campbell’s Albyn’s Anthology (Lyrics by Walter Scott)
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://archive.org/details/albynsanthologyo00camp_0/page/82/mode/2up?view=theater
+X+X+X+X+
1828: The Haughs of Cromdale
From Donald MacDonald
I didn’t play this on the episode
https://ceolsean.net/content/McDlight/Book02/Book02%2020.pdf
+X+
1844: The Haughs of Cromdale
From Angus MacKay’s The Pipers’ Assistant
https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/Book02/Book02%209a.pdf
+X+X+
1920: The Gathering of the Clans by PM John Grant from “The Pipes of War” a Collection of Original Pipe Tunes Compose during the Great War 1914-1918 https://ceolsean.net/content/Pwar/Book01/Book01%2014a.pdf
+X+X+X+X+X+
Readings:
George Clarke:
1876: Excerpt from Historical record of the 71st regiment Highland light infantry, from its formation in 1777, under the title of the 73rd, or McLeod's highlanders, up to the year 1876 by Henry John Thornton Hildyard
https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord00hildiala
'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
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "The Highland Piper, George Clarke" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 5, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9cac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
+X+
Pipe Major Cameron:
1927: Excerpt from The Piper In Peace And War
By C. A. Malcolm, M.A., Ph.D.
https://electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/peaseandwar15.htm
+X+
1995: Thesis: The Relationship Between Pibroch and Gaelic Song: Its Implications on the Performance Style of the Pibroch Urlar by Allan MacDonald’s
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/allanmacdonald/
+X+X+
FIN
Here are some ways you can support the show:
You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes!
Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast!
Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag:
https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag
You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/
You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1
You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going!
Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support
Thanks!
Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
Support Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast