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Piping Times
Piping Times is a compilation-style reference focused on the repertoire, performance, and culture of bagpipe-centered music. It surveys repertories associated with distinct piping traditions and links those repertoires to institutions, performers, and events across the British Isles, continental Europe, and parts of North America. The work situates piping alongside related folk and classical institutions and chronicles major contests, ensembles, and compositional currents.
Piping Times addresses the traditions of the Great Highland Bagpipe, Lowland bagpipes, Irish uilleann pipes, Northumbrian smallpipes, Breton musette, Galician gaita, and other pipes associated with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Trinity College Dublin, Royal Northern College of Music, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Queen's University Belfast, University of St Andrews, National University of Ireland Galway, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Aberdeen, National Library of Scotland, British Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Library of Congress. It references major venues and festivals such as Albert Hall, SSE Hydro, Glasgow Green, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Celtic Connections, Tønder Festival, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Cambridge Folk Festival, Oxford Folk Festival, Isle of Man Festival of the Celts, Milton Keynes Bowl, Dublin Castle, and Belfast Waterfront. The volume cross-references performers, makers, and contests including World Pipe Band Championships, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Brigadoon, Piping Live!, Scottish Pipe Band Association, Scottish Qualifications Authority, College of Piping, National Piping Centre, Bagpipe Society (Great Britain), College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada, Northumbrian Pipers' Society, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Scoil Éigse, Irish Traditional Music Archive, Céilí Band Championship, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Scottish Music Centre, and Arts Council England.
The historical survey traces roots from medieval courtly contexts linked to House of Stuart, House of Windsor, Plantagenet, Norman conquest of England, King James VI and I, Queen Victoria, Napoleonic Wars, and the Jacobite rising of 1745. It charts diffusion through military institutions such as the British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Queen's Own Highlanders, Seaforth Highlanders, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon Highlanders, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Canadian Armed Forces, United States Marine Corps, and Australian Army, connecting to diaspora communities in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Victoria (Australia), New South Wales, California, New York (state), Ontario (Canada), and Scotland Yard-era ceremonial traditions. The narrative examines instrument evolution with references to makers and innovators associated with Robert Reid (piper), Archibald MacDonald (piper), Gordon Duncan, William Ross (piper), John MacDonald of Inverness, Donald MacLeod (piper), Angus Mackay (piper), Seumas MacNeill, Fred Morrison, P/M James L. Ross, Angus MacColl, Roddy MacLeod, Iain MacFadyen (piper), Allan MacDonald (piper), Peter MacLeod Jr., and workshops influenced by Victor Hugo (author)-era instrument makers.
The work catalogs forms such as marches, slow airs, strathspeys, reels, jigs, hornpipes, piobaireachd (ceòl mòr), ceòl beag, variations, and dance tunes, referencing canonical settings tied to Highland dance, Scottish country dance, Irish stepdance, Morris dance, Ceilidh, and Barn dance contexts. Repertoire entries link to influential collections and editions like Piobaireachd Society, Book of the Dean of Lismore, The Highland Bagpipe, Neil Gow (violinist), James Scott Skinner, Francis James Child, Roud Folk Song Index, Child Ballads, Edward Bunting, Francis O'Neill, O'Neill's Music of Ireland, Niel Gow Collection, Geoffrey Shaw, Peter Kennedy (folklorist), Alan Lomax, Hamish Henderson, Ewan MacColl, James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd), and the archival holdings of National Library of Ireland and National Library of Scotland.
Instrumental sections survey construction, reed-making, chanter fingering, drones, ornamentation, and tunings with makers, workshops, and instrument traditions linked to Bagpipe Maker's Guild, Dunbar Bagpipes, David Naill & Sons, McCallum Bagpipes, R.G. Lawrie, Gordon Duncan Workshop, William Ross (piper), Hamilton & Co., John MacDougall, W. MacLeod & Sons, Lowson & Co., Hamish Moore, Andy May, Colin Mirfin, and reed suppliers serving communities such as Aberdeen, Inverness, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway, Brest, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Bilbao, and Lisbon. Technique entries reference ornamentation linked to practitioners like Angus MacColl, Callum Beaumont, Iain Speirs, Graham Brown, Alasdair Gillies, Brendan Breathnach, Séamus Ennis, Liam Ó Maonlaí, and pedagogues at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and National Piping Centre.
Chapters cover solo performance, pipe band organization, dance-accompaniment ensembles, session traditions, orchestral collaborations, and fusion projects with entities such as The Chieftains, Planxty, The Bothy Band, Capercaillie, Clannad, The Corrs, Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, Anúna, The Dubliners, Solas (band), Lúnasa, Afro Celt Sound System, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Béla Fleck, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Sting (musician), Brian Boru (EP), and collaborations in film scores like Braveheart (film), Highlander (film), The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), Outlander (TV series), Game of Thrones, and productions at National Theatre.
Piping Times situates pipes within civic ceremony, commemorative rituals, sporting events, and diaspora identity, linking to institutions and events such as Commonwealth Games, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Trooping the Colour, Remembrance Day (United Kingdom), St. Andrew's Day, St. Patrick's Day, St. David's Day, St. George's Day, New Year's Day (Hogmanay), Burns Night, Highland games, Caledonian Society, Uilleann Pipes and Folk Orchestra of Great Britain, Boston Celtic Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, World Pipe Band Championships, and civic collections in Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Ulster Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Entries highlight composers and works across piping traditions and related composers such as Donald Shaw (musician), Neil Gow (violinist), Gordon Duncan, Donald MacLeod (piper), William Ross (piper), Peter Maxwell Davies, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, William McGonagall, Turlough O'Carolan, Seán Ó Riada, Francis McPeake, James McKenzie (piper), John MacDonald of Inverness, Hamish Henderson, Angus Fraser, Allan MacDonald (piper), Iain Dall MacKay, John Burgess (piper), Lillian Bayliss and modern composers who incorporated pipe timbres into orchestral and chamber works associated with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, and ensembles commissioning new repertoire such as Faber Music and Boosey & Hawkes.
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