The Highland Watch
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Highland Watch" also known as "Now the 42nd Regt. or Royal Highlanders" is a<br> Scottish strathspey in E Minor. The parts are played AAB.<br> The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment is better-known as the Black Watch, first raised<br> in 1739 under John, the Earl of Crawford.<br> As "42nd Highland Regiment" the strathspey<br> was printed in William Bradbury Ryan's Ryan's Mammoth Collection (Boston, 1883)<br> in A minor which places part of the B part very high in the violin 3rd position.<br> It was printed in Dow's Collection of Ancient Scots Music (c. 1775),<br> Gow's Complete Repository, Part One (1799),<br> McKercher's A Collection of Original Strathspeys and Reels (1824),<br> O'Farrell's National Irish Music for the Union Pipes (1804).<br>
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