Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Specifically, the classical music form of the Great Highland Bagpipe consisting of a theme, the Urlar, and a series of variations arranged in a regular pattern or sequence. More loosely, but incorrectly, applied to Highland bagpipe music in general. Other forms of the term are pibrochs, pibrughs, pibroughs. Another name for it is 'Ceòl Mòr' (the 'Big Music'), which separates piobaireachd from all other forms of pipe music (marches, reels, jigs etc.), which are referred to as 'Ceòl Beag' (the Little Music).
Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:
Translation into staff notation by Simon Fraser of MS.9615: "Collection of piobaireachd or pipe tunes as verbally taught by the M'Crummen Pipers"., [Circa 1933.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9616
Tunes collected by Donald Stuart Macdonald, Pipe Major, 1st Battalion Royal Scots, and written down in 1882.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3110-3111
Dates:
1882.
Typescript 'Account of the Campbells of Nether Lorn and their system of Canntaireachd', undated., ?Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2260
Dates:
?Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Typescript copy of the Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd., 1797-[1814, or after].
File
Identifier: MS.2259
Scope and Contents
The copy was made along with other copies at the instance of John Bartholomew, who was then the owner of the original. It was carefully checked and corrections made by Bartholomew and Colonel J P Grant of Rothiemurchus.
Dates:
1797-[1814, or after].
Typescript copy of the Nether Lorn, or Campbell, Canntaireachd; with a typescript 'Account of the Campbells of Nether Lorn and their system of Canntaireachd'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2259-2260
Dates:
1797-[1814, or after], undated.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
File
Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Volume of piobaireachd, undated., 2nd half of the 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.22123
Scope and Contents
A leaf from another music book is bound in at the back (folio 104).
Dates:
2nd half of the 19th century.
Volume of Scottish music, comprising airs, Lowland and Highland, songs, dances, a pibroch, etc., 1838, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.2086
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
1838, undated.
Volumes, each stamped 'Piobaireachd M.S.S.' on the upper board, written in the same hand about the end of the nineteenth century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22119-22120
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century.
Volumes of piobaireachd of Pipe-Majors Ronald and Alexander Mackenzie and Charles Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22123-22127
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.