Highland Bagpipe : Music, History, Tradition.
Title:
Highland Bagpipe : Music, History, Tradition.
Author:
Dickson, Joshua, Dr.
ISBN:
9780754694632
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (404 pages)
Series:
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Illustrations -- List of Music Examples -- List of Tables -- List of Audio Tracks -- Notes on the Contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Urlar -- 1 Problems of Notating Pibroch: A Study of 'Maol Donn' -- Dithis: Materiality And The Highland Pipe -- 2 The Iain Dall Chanter: Material Evidence for Intonation and Pitch in Gaelic Scotland, 1650-1800 -- 3 Wood, Horn and Bone: A Survey of Immigrant Bagpipes and Regional Pipe-making in Nova Scotia, 1820-1920 -- 4 The Making of Bagpipe Reeds and Practice Chanters in South Uist -- Siubhal: Historical studies -- 5 Traditional Origins of the Piping Dynasties -- 6 One Piper or Two: Neil MacLean of the 84th Highlanders -- 7 Simon Fraser Reconsidered -- Taorludh: Revivalism and transformation -- 8 Taking Stock: Lowland and Border Piping in a Highland World -- 9 'Tullochgorm' Transformed: A Case Study in Revivalism and the Highland Pipe -- 10 Return of the Drone: A 'Folk' Thing? -- Crùnnludh: Canonical studies -- 11 The Campbell Canntaireachd Manuscript: The Case for a Lost Volume -- 12 The Concept of Mode in Scottish Bagpipe Music -- Urlar -- 13 Rhythm in Pibroch: A Return to 'Maol Donn' -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. However, since the bagpipe's unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s, a greater interest in the emic has led the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. The contributors of this collection discuss the bagpipe in oral and written history, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, material culture and modal aesthetics. The book will appeal to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, as well as those interested in international bagpipe studies and traditions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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