The first is thanks to Michael and Diana from Juneau,Īlaska, while the last is taken from a 7-CD set of out-of-copyright pipe musicĪvailable from Tony Langford, who is t.langford AT ucl.ac.uk. John MacDonald MP3s - Here are five recordings by John
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Now here are some music recordings that are now out of copyright, and so freeįor anyone to download and use as they wish. Publications of the Piobaireachd Society. There is a paper by Roderick Cannon on future
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You free access to all of the major early source materials. With copies of, or links to, most of these manuscripts. Site for the Nether Lorn Canntaireachd, the manuscripts by Peter Reid andĭavid Glen, and the remaining manuscript by Angus MacKay. The Society also hosts the Hannay-MacAuslan Published the first collection of pibroch in 1820.ĭonald MacDonald's book has been put online by the Piobaireachd Society here MacDonald Manuscript was compiled by Donald MacDonald, who Seaforth Manuscript were compiled in about 1840 by Angus MacKay, John MacKay Pibroch Manuscript was written by Angus MacKay's Of Donald MacDonald, the famous pipemaker, and is dated 1826 (his father's Pibroch Manuscript of Donald MacDonald Junior was written by a son Traditional canntaireachd notation by Captain Niel MacLeod of Gesto. Neil MacLeod of Gesto Canntaireachd Book was published in 1828 andĬontains 20 tunes taken from Ian Dubh MacCrimmon and transcribed in the Sound samples, visit the Piobaireachd Society's music index, or listen to the first four tracks by John For more on pibroch, see the Wikipedia entry and the Piobaireachd Society website. The classical music of the highland pipes. We have scanned, and host here, six of the most important sources of pibroch. Out-of-copyright recordings) and finally some piping Traditions developed as they grew apart from the mid-18th century onwards.įinally you'll find Irish pipe music MP3s (of old Then thereĪre many of the music manuscripts that trace theĭevelopment of the pastoral/union/uilleann pipes and the Northumbrian pipesįrom the mid-18th century onwards. The rest of this page has a number of highland pipe manuscripts, mostly scannedīy the late Roderick Cannon and myself, followed by a number of old highland piping MP3s and other resources. (The set is described in vĢ no 5 of the Sean Reid Society Journal.) Here's a recording (60Mb) and slides from a talk in 2008 at the William Kennedy festival. Robertson set I've got back into playing condition. I've given talksĪnd demonstrations on the pastoral pipes where I play an eighteenth-century I gave Piping Today on the pastoral pipes, a hobby of mine. Highland societies: as this is over 300 pages it's divided into 24-page Iain MacInnes' Thesis on the highland bagpipe and the.Here are section 1, section 2, section 3 and section 4. Most of the music is for the highland pipe, someįor the flute, some (near the end) probably for the pastoral pipe. The Millar Highland Manuscript was written by Robert.Possibly from Islay, with the second volume published in 1830. Celtic Melodies were books published by an unknown author,.The music also comes from a very antique tradition with some relevance to Here by Peter: a unique combination of musical scholarship and cryptanalysis! This is an early 17th centuryĬollection of Welsh harp music written in tablature, decoded and interpreted MacDonald's Thesis, which he submitted in 1995, quite simplyĬhanged the way we think about pibroch, and has had a growing influence on Roderick and I also scanned some other items of Life of John MacDonald is a biography by the late Roderick Cannon of my National Museum in Edinburgh for many years. Is well worth a read he was curator of Scottish material culture at the We have a Fenland meeting of Northumbrian pipers from 8pm There's a regular podcast on the subject by Jeremy Northumbrian traditions developed into their current form, as did our threeĬountries' pipes and many other instruments. This was a period of rapid change the Scots, Irish and I'm interested in the evolution of folk music in the eighteenth and early In people's gardens and by recording videos. But we've been keeping our eye in with practice sessions Have been tough during lockdown, given that our mission is organisng the best Here is the latest video from the Cambridge University Ceilidh Band.