The Peter Reid MS, is dated Glasgow 1826. Reid was one of the pipers who welcomed George IV to Scotland on the famous royal visit of 1822. Reid originally hailed from Campbeltown (born c. 1801) , and may have been a pupil of Donald MacDonald: certainly he seems to have been bred up in the ornate and richly expressive MacArthur style of which he was evidently a good exponent. Although clearly influenced by Donald MacDonald’s notational conventions, Reid takes an independent line with regard to expression and his settings often seem strikingly fluent and musical in comparison with MacDonald’s ‘squarer’ more boxy style. The MS contains 43 tunes and a selection of poems, on ‘Highland’ and piping subjects, some possibly composed by Reid himself.
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Battle of Waternish
Chisholm of Strathglass’s Salute
Clan Campbell’s Gathering
Clanranald’s Salute
Daughter’s Lament (Lament for Graham of Claverhouse)
Earl of Ross’s March
I got a Kiss of the King’s Hand
John Garbh MacLeod of Raasay’s Lament
Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon
Lament for the Dead (The Rout of Bendoag)
Lament for the Harp Tree
MacCrimmon will never return
MacCrimmon’s Sweetheart
MacDonald of Sanda’s Lament
MacDonald of Staffa’s Salute
MacDougal of Lorn’s Lament
MacDougal of Lorn’s March
MacGregors’ Gathering
MacIntosh of Borlum’s Salute
MacIntosh’s Lament
MacKay’s White Banner
MacLean of Lochbuie’s Lament
MacLeod of Raasay’s Gathering
MacLeod of Raasay’s Salute
MacNabs’ Gathering
MacNab’s Salute
Marquis of Argyll’s Salute
Massacre of Glencoe
Menzies Salute
My King Has Landed in Moidart
Scarce of Fishing
Sir Hector Mackenzie of Gairloch’s Lament
Sir James MacDonald of the Isles’ Salute
Sound of the Waves against Duntroon
Sutherlands’ Gathering
The Glen is Mine
The Piper’s Warning to his Master
Tulloch Ard
War or Peace
Young George’s Salute
Title Page
Dedicatory Verses
Recitations Part One
Recitations Part Two
Recitations Part Three
Recitations Part Four