PS 184 – The Highland Society of Scotland’s Salute

      Fàilte Chomann Gàidhealach na h-Albainn

Primary Sources

The Highland Club… A.10: 29
KB Index: Fàilte Chomunn Ghaidhealach na h’Alban / The Highland Society of Scotland’s Salute KB.56: 146

Notes on Gaelic Title

Fàilte Chomann Gàidhealach na h-Albainn The Highland Club / by J: MacArthur A; Fàilte Chomunn Ghaidhealach na h’Alban / The Highland Society of Scotland’s Salute KB index (KB main text omits the Gaelic). Salute to The Highland Society of Scotland.The tune was played by the composer at the Edinburgh competitions run by the Society, 1790 – see F. Buisman and Cannon, Roderick D., The MacArthur-MacGregor Manuscript of Piobaireachd (1820), the Music of Scotland, Ceol na h-Albainn, Series No 01; published by the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen in association with The John MacFadyen Memorial Trust and The Piobaireachd Society (2001), p. 82. Angus MacKay (KB) dates the composition to that year.

Roderick Cannon (2009)

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