Piobaireachd. Classical Music of the Highland Bagpipe

Häftad bok. BBC Publications. 1:a uppl. 1968. 88 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Liten ägarsignatur i blyerts på insidan av frampärmen. Ägarstämpel på titelbladet. "In a world where communications have become electronic and where the cultures of East and West are meeting and influencing each other more than ever before, one artistic tradition remains in an almost private enclave, although the instrument of the artistry is known everywhere. This is 'piobaireachd' or 'ceòl mór', the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, as it came to its finest flowering with the MacCrimmon family at Borreraig in the Isle of Skye; and as it continues to flourish in the spirit and playing of the leading pipers today. Most pipers are happy with the marches, strathspeys, reels, jigs, slow marches and so on that the pipe bands of the world play. Piobaireachd is the classical music of the soloist. In form, development, ornamentation and technique, ceòl mór is as like the ceòl beag of pipe band marches as Beethoven's Ninth is like a Top Twenty arrangement. Many classical music lovers as well as the pipers themselves have for long felt the want of a book that would analyse piobaireachd as a serious branch of the world's music. This book is written to meet that want. It is the first full treatment of the subject. The last writer to deal at lenght with it was Joseph MacDonald, who compiled 'A Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe' between 1760 and 1763. And even that book (first published in 1803) was general and descriptive rather than analytical and musicological. Seumas MacNeill, author of the present book, is Joint Principal of the College of Piping, as well as senior lecturer in Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He has won many prizes for piping including the gold medal for piobaireachd at Oban in 1962". Innehållsförteckning: "Foreword", "History of the bagpipe", "Bagpipe music", "The great Highland bagpipe", "Staff notation and canntaireachd", "Piobaireachd history", "Secondary piobaireachd", "Tertiary A", "Tertiary B", "Irregular Piobaireachd", "The present position".