Sir John Macgregor Murray: Preserver of Highland Culture, Music, and Song.

Sir John Macgregor Murray is known by Scottish music historians as the man who retrieved Joseph Macdonald's Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe. This act of transmitting a work about Highland culture was just one instance of the Highland chieftain's involvement in facilitating the artistic...

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Publicado en:Folk Music Journal Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 52 - 66
Autor principal: McAULAY, KAREN E.
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Publicado: English Folk Dance & Song Society 2026
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