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Angus MacKay (10 September 1813 – 21 March 1859) was a Scottish bagpipe player and the first Piper to the Sovereign.He wrote collections of pibroch and ceol beag written in staff notation, which became the basis for standardised settings of music which had previously been shared by singing of canntaireachd.
Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century: A Music Collection and Historical Study. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers. pp. 122–146. MacNeill, Dugald B. (2007). Sight Readable Ceol Mor Book I. Edinburgh: Dugald B. MacNeil. MacNeill, Seumas (1976) [1948]. Classical Music of the Highland Bagpipe. Glasgow: College of Piping. ISBN 0-563-07487-6.
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 ...
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 ...
The great Highland bagpipe (Scottish Gaelic: a' phìob mhòr pronounced [a ˈfiəp ˈvoːɾ] lit. 'the great pipe') is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the great Irish warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world.
Duncan taught Finlay MacDonald (musician), one of the first pipers to receive a BA in Scottish Music from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. [2] He published three books of traditional and modern pipe music and three solo albums. [2] He was awarded the Balvenie Medal by Messrs Wm Grant & Son in 1996 for his piping achievements. [2]
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. Historically, numerous other bagpipes existed, and many of them have been recreated in the last half-century.
The "Battell" sequence from My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591) by William Byrd, which probably alludes to the Irish wars of 1578, contains a piece entitled The bagpipe: & the drone. In 1760, the first serious study of the Scottish Highland bagpipe and its music was attempted in Joseph MacDonald's Compleat Theory.
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