Gold stars (in a way): A bright gold star to you in playing on the Scottish Small Pipes' bagpipes "The Company's Lament" Piobaireachd, (a first, in a firmament of stars of Piobaireachd and Ceol Beag, little Scottish 'energy centers,' and where virtuosic S
A bright gold star for you, Taylor, in playing 'The Company's Lament" (a first, in a firmament of stars of Piobaireachd and Ceol Beag, little Scottish 'energy centers,' and where virtuosic Stuart Liddell plays his oft-played, old favorites like 'My Home' so brightly, - and music we create beyond this, Gordon Duncan-wise, for example, but in so so many other ways).
What I appreciated much is your playing of it in a relaxed and slow way (and per Ma and Marsalis - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm - and I could write something similarly for each of these 12 approaches to playing a musical instrument), and your learning of the Piobaireachd as a musical form, from the online resources. Great learning, and musical expression in playing your first Piobarieachd ever, and 'in recital,' (and in video conferencing!)
Appreciatively musically, Scott
PSreturning to language first to explore 'classical music' ideas regarding Piobaireachd, or Ceòl mór:
classical - "(typically of a form of art) regarded as representing an exemplary standard; traditional and long-established in form or style: a classical ballet"
music - "vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion"
Ceòl beag or SSP light music -
folk - "relating to the traditional art or culture of a community or nation"
(from the Apple dictionary on my MacBook Air laptop:)
(but perhaps we can pipe these linguistic distinctions out of the air:)
... and yet your Piobaireachd playing of an exemplary standard was wonderful, and regarding how understanding what classical music is can inform playing :)
Hi Taylor,
Greetings! Here's the Piobaireachd "The Company's Lament" for your enjoyment.
(As I was watching newly an Angela & Victor Yoga video class - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/northern-white-cedar-thuja-occidentalis.html- from Greece (for the LA based but online Embodiment Conference), whose freeing teaching I appreciate, )
... and bagpiping-wise, it occurs to me that I'd like to record the Piobaireachd "The Company's Lament," - as a kind of teaching - and send it to you before tomorrow when you're doing an e-recital of the same piece. We're getting into learning performance, in a sense too :) (Conceptually, am not sure if this means that I'm teaching SSP performance, - like at Juilliard and Curtis Music Schools, et al. teach "Performance" ... but I may be heading in this direction in conceiving of my teaching some:)
Will send from sgkmacleod@worlduniv re more email account space therein than here :)
(As I've mentioned, and FYI, I don't think however that I'm going to include any Piobaireachd on my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album).
Looking forward to your playing The Company's Lament tomorrow evening.
Musical cheers, Scott
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Hi Taylor,(As I was watching newly an Angela & Victor Yoga video class - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/northern-white-cedar-thuja-occidentalis.html- from Greece (for the LA based but online Embodiment Conference), whose freeing teaching I appreciate, )
... and bagpiping-wise, it occurs to me that I'd like to record the Piobaireachd "The Company's Lament," - as a kind of teaching - and send it to you before tomorrow when you're doing an e-recital of the same piece. We're getting into learning performance, in a sense too :) (Conceptually, am not sure if this means that I'm teaching SSP performance, - like at Juilliard and Curtis Music Schools, et al. teach "Performance" ... but I may be heading in this direction in conceiving of my teaching some:)
Will send from sgkmacleod@worlduniv re more email account space therein than here :)
(As I've mentioned, and FYI, I don't think however that I'm going to include any Piobaireachd on my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album).
Looking forward to your playing The Company's Lament tomorrow evening.
Musical cheers, Scott
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
Excellent "The Company's Lament" this evening, Taylor!
Loved it, and thank you FOR PLAYING IT.
"MacIntosh's Banner" thru the Crunluath Singling (fingering movement) for next week ...
The Glasgow Police Pipers at 110 bpm + 120 bpm ...
And what makes Piobaireachd a classical music (and not)?
What is a classical music (am thinking Carnatic music from India, in addition to Western Classical Music) and how might this knowledge inform playing beautiful Piobaireachd even (and re it as a classical music from a Scottish way of thinking too:)
Super 'TCL' :) [image error]
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