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The Skye Boat Song" (Roud 3772) is a late 19th-century Scottish song adaptation of a Gaelic song composed c.1782 by William Ross, entitled Cuachag nan Craobh ("Cuckoo of the Tree"). [1] In the original song, the composer laments to a cuckoo that his unrequited love , Lady Marion Ross, is rejecting him.
A piper with the 4 SCOTS regiment playing the bagpipes Skye Boat Song performed by Pipe Band. Many associate Scottish folk music with the Great Highland Bagpipe, which has long played an important part in Scottish music. Although this particular form of bagpipe was developed exclusively in Scotland, it is not the only Scottish bagpipe.
In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archaic term for this is burden (bourdon or burdon) [1] [2] such as a "drone [pipe] of a bagpipe", [3] [4] the pedal point in an organ, or the lowest course of ...
Previous nomination: Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Bagpipes. Nominate to delist. Guerillero | My Talk 04:05, 9 June 2011 (UTC) Support - Yuck! Not a good sample of bagpipes at all. Graham 87 13:15, 9 June 2011 (UTC) Get rid of it now!!!
The last MacCrimmon to be hereditary piper to MacLeod of MacLeod (until the modern era) was Black John MacCrimmon. According to tradition in 1795 Black John decided to emigrate to America, though only got as far as Greenock, before making up his mind to stay on the Isle of Skye, where he died in 1822 aged ninety-one. [15]
The bagpipe also make use of slow marches such as the Skye Boat Song and the Cradle Song. These are set in 6 8 time and are usually played at around 60 beats per minute if played by only pipe bands (and 120 if played with a military band).
Harold Boulton in 1918. Sir Harold Edwin Boulton, 2nd Baronet, CVO, CBE, JP (7 August 1859 [1] – 1 June 1935), son of Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, 1st Baronet of Copped Hall, born in Charlton then part of Kent, was an English baronet, songwriter, and philanthropist, most famously author of the lyrics to the "Skye Boat Song".
The Tannahill Weavers are a band which performs traditional Scottish music.Releasing their first album in 1976, they became notable for being one of the first popular bands to incorporate the sound of the Great Highland Bagpipe in an ensemble setting, [1] and in doing so helped to change the sound of Scottish traditional music.