Author: FionnPublisher:
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Martial Music of the Clans
Author: FionnMartial Music of the Clans
Author: "Fionn".The Martial Music of the Clans, with Historic, Biographic, & Legendary Notes Regarding the Origin of the Music
Author: FionnThe Martial Music of the Clans
Author: FionnThe Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland with the Arms of the Chiefs
Author: Clan Ewen
Author: R. S. T. MacEwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This account of clan Ewen is expanded from a series of articles by the late Mr. R.S.T. MacEwen to th Celtic monthly, and together with added material was about ready for publication in book form, at the time of his death in 1900.
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945
Author: John G. GibsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773568905
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the New World. Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping. Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders. This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated into unitary multinational societies.
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
Author: John Graham GibsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.
Defining Strains
Author: James PorterPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039109487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume is the result of new research into such key figures as the composers Tobias Hume, William Kinloch, Patrick MacCrimmon and John Forbes; it looks at the important manuscripts, imported French and Italian music, burgh and ceremonial music, secular songs and their texts, and the psalm singing that dominated public life.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description