Editing Lament (section)

==Scottish laments==
The purely instrumental lament is a common form in [[pìobaireachd|piobaireachd]] music for the [[Great Highland Bagpipe|Scottish bagpipes]]. "MacCrimmon's Lament" dates to the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The tune is held to have been written by Donald Ban MacCrimmon, piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, who supported the Hanoverians. It is said that Donald Ban, who was killed at Moy in 1746, had an intimation that he would not return.{{clarify|date=April 2017}}<ref>[http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/secondary/genericcontent_tcm4572872.asp "MacCrimmon's Lament", Foghlam Alba] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006063418/http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/secondary/genericcontent_tcm4572872.asp |date=2013-10-06 }}</ref>

A well-known Gaelic [[lullaby]] is "[[Griogal Cridhe]]" ("Beloved Gregor"). It was composed in 1570 after the execution of Gregor MacGregor by the Campbells. The grief-stricken widow, Marion Campbell, describes what happened as she sings to her child.<ref>[http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/about/songs/lullabiesdandlings/index.asp "Lullabies and Dandlings", Foghlam Alba] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004070706/http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/about/songs/lullabiesdandlings/index.asp |date=2013-10-04 }}</ref>

"{{lang|gd|Cumhadh na Cloinne}}" ("Lament for the Children") is a pìobaireachd composed by Padruig Mór MacCrimmon in the early 1650s. It is generally held to be based on the loss of seven of MacCrimmon's eight sons within a year to [[smallpox]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.piobaireachd.co.uk/listen?tune=children-lament-for-the |title=Lament for the Children |website=The Piobaireachd Society}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.piobaireachd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/macrimmons075.pdf |title=The History of Piping – The Hereditary Pipers – The MacCrimmons |first=Captain John |last=MacLellan |website=piobaireachd.co.uk}}</ref> possibly brought to Skye by a Spanish trading vessel. Poet and writer [[Angus Peter Campbell]], quoting poet [[Sorley MacLean]], has called it "one of the great artistic glories of all Europe".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/it-moved-me-cumha-na-cloinne-the-lament-for-the-children-by-padraig-mor-maccrimmon-scr7fcrvmz8 |title=It moved me: Cumha na Cloinne (The Lament for the Children) by Pàdraig Mòr MacCrimmon |first=Angus Peter |last=Campbell |authorlink=Angus Peter Campbell |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=12 April 2009 |url-access=limited}}</ref> Author Bridget MacKenzie, in ''Piping Traditions of Argyll'', suggests that it refers to the slaughter of the MacLeod's fighting Cromwell's forces at the Battle of Worcester. It may have been inspired by both.<ref>[http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/about/songs/pibroch/index.asp "Pibroch songs and canntaireachd", Education Scotland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004070629/http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/about/songs/pibroch/index.asp |date=2013-10-04 }}</ref>

Other Scottish laments from outside of the [[Pibroch|piobaireachd]] tradition include "Lowlands Away"{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}, "MacPherson's Rant", and "Hector the Hero".