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Coloured script pibroch or piobaireachd music

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for the 'Children's Lament', by Dr Roderick Ross

Postcard of Coloured script pibroch or piobaireachd music.
000-000-579-543-C
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Coloured script pibroch or piobaireachd music

Music for the Great Highland bagpipe as written down by Dr. Roderick Ross and edited into his collection of pibroch or piobaireachd entitled Binneas is Boreraig (Melody and Boreraig). The tune is the 'Children's Lament' of the early 17th century. Dr. Ross brought together 50 tunes and developed a particular style of setting down the music in phrases, without bar-lines or indication of timing. As a student of piobaireachd, Dr. Ross drew on the playing style of Malcolm, son of Angus Macpherson, a style that has been considered to reflect more clearly the playing and teaching of the MacCrimmons.

The first volume to Binneas is Boreaig was published in 1959 and 5 books in all were produced in the series (1959 - 1967).

Piobaireachd, a Gaelic term meaning literally 'piping', is used for a form of classical music for the Great Highland Bagpipe. The tunes in extended form developed the air, known in Gaelic as ùrlar ('ground'), in a series of variations with increasingly elaborate but formulaic gracenoting. This style of composition probably preserves musical conventions of earlier centuries and required the player to be strictly trained. It is essentially the instrumental 'praise' music of Scottish Gaelic society, composed to commemorate great events, and the lives, achievements and deaths of clan chieftains and leaders of society. The pipers themselves were often of high status and occupied an official position in the clan hierarchy. Many of the tunes belong to the late medieval period in the Highlands and were passed on by word of mouth and taught verbally before written notation was introduced. Tradition suggested that the leading exponents of piobaireachd such as the MacCrimmons and MacArthurs in Skye sang and recited the tunes in a syllabic language or canntaireachd.


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Online ID: 000-000-579-543-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0869: The Bagpipe Collection
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  Bagpipe Archive 1.16
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