Great Highland Bagpipe music. Bagpipe music.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Music of the Great Highland Bagpipe, regardless of the notation in which it is recorded. The genre is divided into two forms: the classical, 'Piobaireachd' (also Ceòl Mòr), and the 'lighter' form, 'Ceòl Beag'.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Angus Mackay's four untitled manuscripts of bagpipe music.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3753-3756
Scope and Contents
The first two manuscripts are of piobaireachd; the second two, of marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs, and other dance music.
According to Angus Mackay's inscription in his Seaforth Manuscript (MS.3744) he was at work on these manuscripts between 1826 and 1840, taking the tunes down from his father's canntaireachd.
Dates:
[1826-1840.]
Bagpipe music, consisting of both piobaireachd and more popular pieces, collected and copied by Donald Dow, Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3750-3752
Scope and Contents
Donald Dow died in Glasgow in 1892, aged 56.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Microfilm of 'Specimens of Canntareachd' by Angus Mackay.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.476
Dates:
[1853, or after.]
Microfilm of volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.996
Dates:
1911-1912.
Photocopy of "W.R. Kinnear's pipe-music book. A choice selection of strathspeys [and] reels".
Item
Identifier: MS.22129
Scope and Contents
It would appear, from notes at folio 3, that W R Kinnear was a piper in the 92nd Foot, and that the music book was written, or at least begun, not long before 1863.
Dates:
[Before 1863.]
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.