Monotropa uniflora: Piobaireachd (classical bagpiping music) and BEAUTY (philosophically even)? * Beauty in Piobaireachd re these "Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument" - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPra... ... brain

 

Piobaireachd (classical bagpiping music) and BEAUTY (philosophically even)

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Taylor, good 'to PIobaireachd' with you last night :)
Regarding 
Abeauty and Piobaireachd? - re these Ma & Marsalis' Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ...

All apart from what I'll coin as 'Piobaireachd philosophy,' here are a definition and some thoughts/connections about beauty (re Ma & Marsalis, initially) and Piobaireachd ...

... so here's a definition of beauty: "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, (especially the sight)" (which sight aspect could relate to kilts and the Scottish kit of Piobaireachd players?)


Beauty re these "Guidelines ... " - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm ... brainstorming-wise: 

2 never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.
4 join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body.
5 Relax and practice slowly.
7 Practice expressively.
Be serious – invest yourself expressively.

10 Think for yourself.
Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught.

12 Look for connections. (Make the social aspect of practicing regenerative - S.M.)
Music washes away the dust of everyday life from your feet.



and ... 
Bsynthesize all 4 Piobaireachds in CoP Yellow Tutor Vol. 4 together in your bodymind into 'one computer program' for playing all 200-300 'major' Piobaireachds (and not just the form underlying "The Company's Lament"? :) ... would take 'deep listening' and internalization :)


and ...
Cexploring the Dixon manuscript may be a fascinating way to bring into circulation again new great tunes ...
"William Dixon manuscript - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_Dixon_manuscript

The William Dixon manuscript, written down between 1733 and 1738 in Northumberland, is the oldest known manuscript of pipe music from the British Isles, and the most important source of music for the Border pipes" 

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dixon_manuscript

... and even regarding - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - with Scottish smallpipes not only emerging from GHB music (for me), but also emerging from Northumbrian and borders' piping ... 

But how too to find the most lyrical tunes, in general, to each of our ears? ... Write an algorithm for this (with echoes of brilliant Tufts' Anthropology Prof. Nick Seaver's work on the culture of algorithm and recommender systems ... and now there's some similar in Google Tensorflow