Without further ado, please enjoy these timeless bagpipe songs. What is the most popular song played on bagpipes? 1.Scotland the Brave: This is a Scottish patriot tune first thought to have appeared around the turn of the 20th century and is played by pipers and pipe bands all over the wo...
While some people associate bagpipes with ghastly noises, they are in fact quite beautiful when handled by an experienced player. A number of subtle and complex musical tricks can be accomplished with bagpipes. Many of the songs designed for the instrument are laments and epic poems, which comple...
The music for Highland dancing can be categorized into two types: light music (jigs, reels, and hornpipes) and pipe music. Light music is usually played on modern instruments, while pipe music is unique to the bagpipes. Scottish Highland dancing closely follows tradition and has a long history...
Two songs that will have lunging for the on/off switch on my tuner are "American Pie" by Don McLean and "Hotel California" by the Eagles. I'd rather be surrounded by a pack of crazed bag-pipers than hear either of those two songs. Log in or register to post comments Submitted by...
“Hi Marc, I saved up several episodes of the show for us to listen to as we hiked part of the Barrow Way on our trip to Ireland (we are still here). It has been great catching live music and recognizing many of the songs I have heard on the show. Thanks again for an amaz...
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La seconde Estampie Royalplayed on citole by Ian Pittaway. The piece is fromManuscrit du Roi, a manuscript of troubadour songs compiled 1254–c. 1270, with instrumental pieces such as this estampie added c. 1300. A history of confusion: citole, gittern and cetra ...
By some accounts, one of the passengers also played his bagpipes for entertainment. Ragtime was popular, albeit controversial, and the band in first-class played "selections from the opera and the latest popular melodies from England and America." It's unclear what songs would have been...
Songs may be sung, stories may be told, a sean nos dancer may get up and dance along with a few steps, and the musicians come n go . You never know what will happen, but for sure it will be entertaining. Here's several video samples of traditional Irish sessions I think you'll en...
the most iconic of all my memories of my Hebridean sailing trips – Wizard Pool – and I was keen to try to get a nostalgic glimpse of the spot from which we watched the sunset, entirely alone in our anchorage, to the strains of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf singing Strauss’ Four Last Songs. ...