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Pipers : a guide to the players and music of the Highland bagpipe / William Donaldson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML980 .D6632 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donaldson, William, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bagpipe.
- Bagpipers--Scotland.
- Bagpipers.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- x, 163 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2005.
- Summary:
- Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community, introducing what pipers do, how they do it, and why. Dr Willie Donaldson's original approach shows how 'traditional music', often assumed to be the anonymous product of a dim and distant past, is the creation of gifted individuals operating in a sophisticated and vigorously ongoing enterprise. Since pipers have often been skilled also on the fiddle, keyboards and small-pipes, or as singers or dancers, their story offers fascinating insights into the whole traditional music and song repertoire of Scotland.
- Pipers is a well-informed and highly readable account by a prize-winning author who is a piper and composer of pipe music as well as an internationally recognised historian of Scottish tradition.
- Contents:
- The Pipes and their Music
- The instrument 3
- Reeds 4
- Chanters 6
- Starting to play 8
- Learning the basics 9
- What can go wrong 12
- Teachers 13
- Piping 'schools' 15
- Working clothes 16
- The Pipe Band 17
- Early competitions 20
- Highland Games 24
- The competition circuit 25
- The Music 27
- The Big Music (Ceol Mor) 27
- The Light Music (Ceol Beag) 31
- Changing repertoire 38
- Composition in light music 42
- Composition in piobaireachd 45
- What to look and listen for 47
- Pipers and print 50
- Patrons and print 53
- Oral tradition 62
- Women in piping 66
- Official support: institutions, information 69
- And what about language? 73
- The pipes and other instruments 75
- Piping and the media 76
- Conventional beliefs in piping 77
- And finally ... 79
- Pipers
- Dynasties
- The MacCrimmons 80
- The MacArthurs 81
- The MacKays of Gairloch 82
- The MacGregors 82
- Words versus Notes
- Colin Mor Campbell 83
- Niel MacLeod of Gesto 86
- Donald MacDonald 89
- Angus MacKay 92
- Three Nineteenth-Century Families
- The Camerons 96
- The MacPhersons 98
- The McLennans 102
- Editors
- William Ross 105
- C.S. Thomason 107
- David Glen 112
- Players and Composers
- John MacDougall Gillies 115
- John MacColl 118
- John MacDonald of Inverness 120
- Willie Ross 124
- G.S. McLennan 127
- Donald MacLeod 129
- 'The Bobs of Balmoral' 131
- Robert Urquhart Brown 133
- Robert Bell Nicol 136
- Tunes 142
- 'Black Donald's March' 142
- 'The Breadalbane Fencibles' Quickstep' 145
- 'Lord Breadalbane's March' 146
- 'The Seaforth Highlanders' Quickstep' 147
- 'John MacFadyen of Melfort' 147
- G.S. McLennan, 'Piobaireachd' 147
- John MacDonald, 'Prelude' 149
- R.B. Nicol, 'Gaelic air' 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1841584118
- OCLC:
- 58840555
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