"The Pipe Major" is a Scottish pipe march in 4/4 time and A Major. The parts are played AABB. It was composed by Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927). The Traditional Tune Archive states that it was composed in honor of Donald Macpherson, but Donald Macpherson was born only 5 years before J. Scott Skinner's death. A more likely cadidiate is John MacDonald (born 1865) who was pipe major of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. It was printed in Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904).