Desperately seeking sheet music: ‘Loch MacLeod’ by Donald MacLeod.

DOSCA (who I posted about earlier) recently uploaded this video of one of their sets from Dorrigo to their facebook page. I was in the audience for this one on the weekend. This set is not on their album and was apparently especially arranged for the band’s trip to Australia for the festival.

The first part of this set is ‘Loch MacLeod’ by Donald MacLeod. Its a great tune and I found an event report online from a Piper Society magazine that talked about it being played in 2011, the report reads:

‘Loch MacLeod’, a splendid though little-played retreat march from Donald MacLeod's book. Again, we were encouraged to treat the notation as ‘guidance’ and play the tune in a much freer manner than the title ‘retreat’ would suggest. The tune, in fact, would make a fine slow air.

That kind of feels like what DOSCA has achieved here.

I've been looking online for any sort of sheet music or tab. My thinking being that it might make a great tune for the Seagull Merlin M4.  Unfortunately I've had no luck tracing anything down. It seems the only place to get this tune is in a print addition of a book called Pipe Major Donald MacLeod's Collection Volume 4. I've not found a ready source for this book yet so the search continues.

In the meantime my search for this tune has turned up a couple of other Scottish tunes in the Key of D that look like they could work very well on the Segull Merilin once they have been converted to tab.