Donald Blue
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Donald Blue" is a Shetland reel or march in D Major. The parts are played AB<br> (Flett & Flett) and AABB (Anderson, Brody, Hunter, Martin & Hughes).<br> The melody was collected under a different name by the English musicologist<br> Pat Shuldham-Shaw, perhaps "Donald Beu" which was the name of a teacher on the<br> island of Papa Stour.<br> There is a slow bagpipe march of the same name, although a<br> different tune. David Murray (Music of the Scottish Regiments, Edinburgh, 1994)<br> writes, "The first pipe major of the 2nd Battalion (of the Scots Fusilier Guards)<br> was Donald MacPherson, who transferred from the Black Watch; and it is, perhaps,<br> a result of this connection that the Scots Guards play as their 'Lights Out' call,<br> the march 'Donald Blue', as do the Black Watch and, indeed, did the Gordons, and<br> that the pipe bag covers of the Scots Guards are in the Black Watch tartan".<br> It was a printed in Anderson & Georgeson's Da Mirrie Dancers (1970),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Flett & Flett's Traditional Dancing in Scotland (1964),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988) and<br> Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990).<br> It was recorded by Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow (1976).<br>
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