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June 17, 2025 71 mins
Tunes: John Gow: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo William Gunn: 71st Highlander’s quick step, Johnny Cope, Robert Miller: Johny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning) Thomas Glen: Johnny Cope, Angus MacKay: Johnny Cope, David Glen: Johnny Cope, DG setting for Johnny Cope, O’Farrell: Johnny Cope, Margaret Barry: Johnny Cope, Patrick MacDonald: A Lament (I’m wounded), Readings: Thomas Pockocke, Sergeant-Major Dickson, Victor Hugo, Sources: Episode Cover Art: 'Anecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper of the 71st Highland Regiment, at the Battle of Vimiero', 1808 https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1971-02-33-533-12 +X+X+ 1817: Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo (Eb) https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27sRepositoryoftheDanceMusicofScotland(Gow%2C_Niel) +X+X+ 1848: 71st Highlander’s Quick Step From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html +X+X+ 1838: Johnny Cope (or Fly to the Hills in the Morning) From Robert Miller Manuscript +X+X+ 1843: Johnny Cope From Thomas Glen’s “A New and Complete Tutor for the Highland Bagpipe” https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html +X+X+ 1843: Johnny Cope From Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/PipeAsst_TOC.html +X+X+ 1848: Johnny Cope From William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html +X+X+ 1870s: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 2 https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html +X+X+ 1880s?: Johnny Cope From David Glen’s Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music Book 6 https://ceolsean.net/content/Dglen/Dglen_TOC.html +X+X+ 1810: Johnny Cope From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion vol 3 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf +X+X+ 2002: Johnny Cope from Margaret Barry: https://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/johnnycopebarrynf.html +X+X+ 1784: I’m Wounded (A Lament) from Patrick MacDonald’s Vocal Airs: (From Perthshire section) https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=RA1-PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false +X+X+ Written Accounts Thomas Pococke Journal of a soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh: 1819). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039571487&seq=5 +X+X+ Seargant Major Dickson, “The Greys at Waterloo: Reminiscences of the Last Survivor of the Famous Charge” Mackenzie MacBride Ed., With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns (Francis Griffiths, London: 1911). https://archive.org/details/withnapoleonatwa00macbuoft/page/136/mode/2up +X+X+ Victor Hugo, “The Battle of Waterloo” Rossiter Johnson Ed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, (The National Alumni, 1905). https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41048/page/n389/mode/2up +X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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