Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 15th 2009 by geoffwright.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as The Hills Of Dargai.
X: 1
T: Heights Of Dargai, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Dmaj
e|:ABc e3 c2e |fdf e3 c3| a=gf e3 Ace|fec B3 B2e|
ABc e3 c2e |fdf e3 c3|a=gf e3 B2e |cdB (A3 A3):|
|:Ace f3 fdf|a=gf e3 c3| a=gf e3 Ace|fec B3 B2e|
ABc e3 c2e |fdf e3 c3|a=gf e3 B2e |cdB A3 A3:|
The Heights of Dargai
A great retreat march by J. Wallace with a bit of history.
The 1st Gordon Highlanders took the Heights in Oct 1897 in the Khyber regio., The Gurkhas tried and were pinned down, but the Gordons, along with the Sikhs took the plateau and a piper wounded in both legs continued to play, and was awarded a VC by Queen Victoria.
# Posted on August 15th 2009 by geoffwright
Scale
Is it really a tune in Dmaj? Maybe the Mixolydian mode of A is the right scale (?)
# Posted on August 17th 2009 by henk
A colleague plays this (as a lively dance rather than a lament) after "The Battle of the Somme"
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2923
He calls in the "Hills of Dargai"
# Posted on August 17th 2009 by spindizzy
March of the modes
It probably should be A mix (I don't think too much in modes).
Perhaps the ABC "special" keysig Hp ought to be included in the dropdown as a reminder?
# Posted on August 17th 2009 by geoffwright