Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- PART ONE: PIPING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN UNBROKEN TRADITION -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Roots of Jacobitism and the Disarming Act -- 3 Policing the Gaelic Highlands after Culloden -- 4 Postscript on the Disarming Act -- PART TWO: MILITARY PIPING, 1746-83 -- 5 Military Piping in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 6 Piping in Four Eighteenth-Century Regiments -- 7 Highland Pipers in the American Revolutionary War and in India -- PART THREE: REPERTOIRE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PIPERS, c. 1750-1820 -- 8 Exclusivity of Repertoire: The Evidence Against -- 9 The "Revival" of Ceòl Mór -- 10 Ceòl Beag and Dance-Music Piping -- 11 The Small-Pipe, the Quickstep, and the College -- PART FOUR: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW -- 12 The Turning Point, 1790-1850: Innovation and Conservatism in Scotland -- 13 Influences on Piping in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia: The Middle Class, the Church, and Temperance -- 14 Transition to Modern Piping in Scotland and Nova Scotia -- 15 Highland Games and Competition Piping -- 16 Traditional Pipers in Nova Scotia -- 17 The Survival of Tradition in Nova Scotia -- APPENDICES -- 1 The Disarming Act, 1746 -- 2 An Act to amend and enforce so much of an Act ... as relates to the more effectual disarming of the Highlands in Scotland, 1748 -- 3 Letter from William Mackenzie, Piper -- 4 Other Immigrant Ceòl Mór Pipers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.