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The Beauties of Harmony, Freeman Lewis (1813) Kentucky Harmony, Ananias Davisson (1816) Tennessee Harmony, Alexander Johnson (1818) The Missouri Harmony, Allen D. Carden (1820) (reprinted 2005) Songs of Zion, James P. Carrell (1821) Columbian Harmony, William Moore (1825) The Virginia Harmony, James P. Carrell and David L. Clayton (1831)
Sheet music, primarily vocal music of American imprint, dating from the 18th century to the present, with most titles in the period 1840–1950. John Hay Library at Brown University: ART SONG CENTRAL: downloadable, IPA transcriptions, vocal: 1,000 Printable sheet music primarily for singers and voice teachers—most downloadable.
Scottish pipe band marching in Edinburgh. A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.There are many such bands in the world, which play for ceremonial purposes, recreation, competition or all three.
When harmony is written within the pipe section, it is usually a two-part harmony, and is usually scored in a 2:1 ratio (with two-thirds of the players on the melody and one third of the players on the harmony part). Because of the limited range of the chanter, the harmonic possibilities are somewhat limited, but well-written harmony in a pipe ...
John Grant FSA Scot (11 August 1876 [1] – 25 April 1961) [2] was an amateur aficionado of the Great Highland bagpipe who, for over fifty years, composed piobaireachd and Ceòl Beag for members of the British Royal Family, important noblemen and women, and contemporary statesmen; [3] wrote and published books on the Great Highland Bagpipe and its music; [4] and taught students under the ...
Most bagpipes are sharper than this, between D ♭ 4 and D 4. [1]. Northumbrian smallpipes in F or F+ B ♭ 4 for F (~20 cents sharp for F+) Older and traditionally made instruments use a pitch sharp of F described as F+ (F-plus) Banjo Banjo: C 3: Tenor banjo C 3: Bassoon: Tenoroon F 4: Contrabassoon: C 3: Bugle Soprano bugle Mellophone bugle ...
Iain MacInnes is a Scottish folk musician, currently working as the producer of the BBC Radio Scotland bagpipe music program Pipeline. He was formerly presenter of that program, before taking a one-year sabbatical in 2002 to write a book on piping in the 20th century. It airs on BBC Radio Scotland at 21:05 GMT on Saturdays.
Harley became inspired to learn the bagpipe after seeing the Black Watch perform in John F. Kennedy's funeral procession in November 1963. Then a maintenance worker for Philadelphia's housing authority, Harley began searching the city for a set of bagpipes. Failing to find one, he traveled to New York City, where he found a set in a pawn shop.