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Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a traditional Scottish lament for the bagpipes. The tune is used as a lament signal in Highland army regiments. The tune is used as a lament signal in Highland army regiments. It gained prominence when it was played during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022.
Chì mi na mòrbheanna (commonly known in English as The Mist Covered Mountains of Home) is a Scottish Gaelic song that was written in 1856 by Highlander John Cameron. The song's tune was performed on the bagpipes during the state funerals of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 2002, Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, Former Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley in 2023 and ...
The Queen’s Piper will help close her state funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her ...
In some ways the song echoes the Old Welsh poem Y Gododdin about a similar defeat in about 600. Solo bagpipe versions of the song are used at services of remembrance, funerals, and other occasions; many in the Commonwealth know the tune simply as "The Lament" which is played at Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies to commemorate war ...
Her lone personal piper – whose time playing the bagpipes outside her window each morning to wake her is at an end – performed the traditional sweetly titled lament Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Show ...
The funeral ended with the Queen's Piper, Pipe Major Paul Burns of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, playing "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep," adapted from a Gaelic song called Caidil mo ghaol. The coffin ...
"Lord Lovat's Lament" is an 18th-century tune for bagpipes associated with an executed Scottish revolutionary nobleman of Clan Fraser. [1] The Lord Lovat of the title is Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat.
The purely instrumental lament is a common form in piobaireachd music for the Scottish bagpipes. "MacCrimmon's Lament" dates to the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The tune is held to have been written by Donald Ban MacCrimmon, piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, who supported the Hanoverians.