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Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.
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 ...
Music for the great Highland bagpipe is divided into piobaireachd and light music. The Scottish Gaelic word pìobaireachd literally means "piping", but it has been adapted into English as piobaireachd or pibroch. In Gaelic, this, the "great music" of the great Highland bagpipe is referred to as ceòl mòr.
Pipe bands have long been part of military tradition, most notably in the United Kingdom and its former colonies. Many of the same standard tunes are found in both the military and civilian pipe band repertoires, and many similarities exist in terms of musical style, historical and musical influences, and dress and deportment.
Canntaireachd (Scottish Gaelic for 'chanting'; pronounced [ˈkʰãũn̪ˠt̪ɛɾʲəxk]) is the ancient method of teaching, learning and memorizing Piobaireachd (also spelt Pibroch), a type of music primarily played on the Great Highland bagpipe. In the canntairached method of instruction, the teacher sings or hums the tune to the pupil ...
Though bagpipes are closely associated with Scotland, the instrument (or, more precisely, family of instruments) is found throughout large swathes of Europe, North Africa and South Asia. The most common bagpipe heard in modern Scottish music is the Great Highland Bagpipe, which was spread by the Highland regiments of the British Army ...
One history of the usage of bagpipe music by the armies of the Commonwealth during World War I reported that the troops were played the "crooning, hoping, sobbing of 'Lord Lovat's Lament,' and so went on from hour to hour through the emptiness of Southern Germany."
The History and Structure of Ceol Mor – A Guide to Piobaireachd, the Classical Music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. Glasgow: Piobaireachd Society. Johnson, David (1984). Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century: A Music Collection and Historical Study. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers. pp. 122– 146. MacNeill, Dugald B. (2007).