JG Baroque says
This tune was requested a long time ago, but somehow slipped out of my consciousness. Recently, I found it again by chance, and decided to look into the tune, which I found to be both beatiful and intriguing. As it seems, there are many melodies to "The Lowlands of Holland", and this one, a beautiful melody in the mixolydian mode, was published in 1747. The melody was apparently popular with the Scots Brigade (also known as the "Anglo-Dutch" or "Anglo-Scots" Brigade), a Dutch military unit consisting of mostly Scots, that served during a period of more than a hundred years in the "Low Lands", that is, modern day Netherlands.
The image shows a scene with Maurice of Orange dismissing a troop of mercenaries, possibly Scottish, from service in 1618. The painting was made in 1625 by the Dutch artist Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot.
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