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Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a traditional Scottish lament for the bagpipes. The tune is used as a taps signal in Highland army regiments. The tune is used as a taps signal in Highland army regiments. It gained prominence when it was played during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on 19 September 2022.
Lord Lovat's Lament. "Lord Lovat's Lament" is an 18th-century tune for bagpipes associated with an executed Scottish revolutionary nobleman of Clan Fraser. [ 1] The Lord Lovat of the title is Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat. Reportedly composed by Ewen MacGregor of Clann an Sgeulaiche, or his pupil David Fraser, [ 2] the work is said to be "a ...
Highland Cathedral. " Highland Cathedral " ( Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais na Gàidhealtachd) is a popular melody for the Great Highland Bagpipe . This melody was composed by German musicians Ulrich Roever and Michael Korb [ 1] in 1982 for a Highland games held in Germany. [ 2] It has been proposed as the Scottish national anthem to replace ...
Chieftain's Salute. Chieftain's Salute is a concerto in one movement for Great Highland Bagpipe and orchestra by Graham Waterhouse. The work is one of few to use the bagpipe with a classical orchestra. A version for bagpipe and string orchestra, Op. 34a, was composed in 2001. It is based on an earlier work for bagpipe and string quartet.
Tsampouna. The tsampouna (or tsambouna; Greek: τσαμπούνα) is a Greek musical instrument and part of the bagpipe family. It is a double- chantered bagpipe, with no drone, [1] and is inflated by blowing by mouth into a goatskin bag. The instrument is widespread in the Greek islands. [2] The word is a reborrowing of zampogna, the word for ...
In modern times bagpipe playing is a part of the curriculum at University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy's Traditional Music faculty and in a number of regular music schools around the country. Construction. The Estonian bagpipe has a bag, a mouth-pipe (blow-pipe) for inflating the bag, a melody-pipe and 1 or 2, rarely 3, drones.
The great Highland bagpipe ( Scottish Gaelic: a' phìob mhòr pronounced [a ˈfiəp ˈvoːɾ] lit. 'the great pipe') is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, and the Scottish analogue to the great Irish warpipes. It has acquired widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world.
Bagpipes are mentioned in English literature as early as The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written between the 1380s and 1390s. Writing in the Prologue about the Miller, the lines read: A baggepype wel coude he blowe and sowne, And ther-with-al he broghte us out of towne. Stone and wood carvings of bagpipes of many different types began ...