Over the Top!: Fifty Bagpipe Tunes from the Great War 1914-1918

This is a collection of fifty bagpipe tunes written during or following the First World War.Many of these tunes were composed by pipers serving in the Scottish regiments of the British Army and commemorate the great battles and campaigns of the Western Front, such as Mons, the Somme, and Passchendaele.Some are very well known and played by pipers and pipe bands today, such as "Battle of the Somme" and "The Bloody Fields of Flanders". Others have had less attention and have not been played much outside the regimental messes of the Scottish regiments.In this centenary year of the end of the Great War this collection is a fitting tribute to the pipers who served and died in the conflict.Jonathan Swan has been playing the bagpipes for twenty years and has an extensive collection of pipe tunes.Music scores created using Bagpipe Player software (Doug Wickstrom)CONTENTS1/5th Seaforth Highlanders Welcome to France8th Argyll's Farewell to Basincourt2nd Battalion Scots Guards Farewell to France2nd Tyneside Scottish March to the Somme12th Battalion Royal Scots on the Rhine17th Royal Scots Crossing the Somme23rd Royal Fusiliers Advance on Cambrai51st Division's FarewellThe 90th's Farewell to France Advancing on WervicqBattle of the SommeBloody Fields of FlandersBuzancyDelville WoodA Dirge to our Fallen HeroesDugald MacColl's Farewell to FranceEarl Haig of BemersideEchoes of FlandersFarewell to the CreeksFestubertThe Glasgow Highlanders at CambraiThe Highland Heroes of Mons King George V's Welcome to FranceKing George V's Welcome to the BattlefieldThe Last Battle of YpresLondon Scottish Advance to MessinesLonguevalLord Kitchener of KhartoumMajor Moir at VillevecqueMen of ArgyllNurse Edith CavellOn the Road to PasschendaeleOver the TopPipe Major R. Meldrum's Welcome to the Cameron Highlanders, 1914Sandy Strafed the GermansSeven Heroes of MouevresThe AlliesThe AnzacsThe Cellars of Authuille, 1915The Iron DivisionThe Long RoadThe Piper of LoosThe Road to the IslesThe Royal Scots Fusiliers Advance on Mons, 1914The Royal ScotsThe Seaforth Highlanders' March to the Battle of LoosThe Shell that Shook the BilletThe Taking of Beaumont HamelThe Unknown WarriorWhen the Boys Come Home Again