Sheet Music: The Hills of Alva

TitleThe Hills of Alva
ComposerTom Muirhead (1900–1979)
InstrumentationFlute solo
KeyD major
RangeG4–A5
Time signature4/4
Tempo112 BPM
Performance time2:20
Difficulty leveleasy
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Date added2015-09-22
Last updated2015-09-22
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Celtic Music, Marches, Traditional/Folk

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Tuesday 22 September 2015

Tune of the Day: The Hills of Alva

Scottish pipe band march

This popular pipe band march is named after the Hills of Alva in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The tune was composed by Tom “Tam” Muirhead, a dance-band accordion player from Lanarkshire who happened to live nearby to pipe band members who picked up the march (composed around 1970) from his repertoire.