Tule Lake Basin: Piobaireachd playing thinking (Pibroch is Scottish classical bagpipe music) * * * Piobaireachd (ceol mor) & Ceol Beag (light music) learning from PM John Burgess * * crunluath Fosgailte & taorluath Fosgailte (where fosgailte means OPEN) *

 

Piobaireachd playing thinking

Hi  Ma,

I think I'm into setting further goals for both Piping and Piano per 
Guidelines for practicing a musical instrumenthttp://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm(& esp. http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm)

Items 2&3 .... :) (You with Jean Thomas and music making together in your cottage?) Giving a piping lesson soon too 
Love, Scott

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Piobaireachd (ceol mor) & Ceol Beag (light music) learning from PM John Burgess

Hi Taylor, 
See you in 5 or 7 minutes, and these are for your consideration after today's meeting. Are they a unique style of piping, unique-to-the-great-John Burgess?

The Desperate Battle of the Birds · John Burgess
https://youtu.be/Mmxp3btwXzs


The Lament for Mary Macleod - Piobaireachd
John Burgess
https://youtu.be/qc6X6eo2VJQ
The Art of the Highland Bagpiper - Vol 2

The his light music too is VERY expressive
John Burgess - Topic - Collection of his piping)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBD9ebd6rqU1BZiN3AzAHA -
and compared with Stuart Liddell's fast remarkable light music, esp. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Burgess

Still looking for a Crunluath Fosgailtch piece (since Lament for the Viscount of Dundee isn't this) and per the Yellow Tutor. 
Seeking too a Crunluath Fosgailtch movement piece even from PM Donald MacLeod's Tutorials for future reference for you in learning (since Tutorials are so helpful).

Cheers, Scott

-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 

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Thanks, Scott! Giving The Lament for Mary MacLeod a listen now.

Looks like Neil Clark has a tutorial for the Crunluath Fosgailte in the video below as an excerpt from The Little Spree. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWhbRKlOZk0&ab_channel=NeilClark-FalkirkPiping

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Great, Taylor, And great LEARNING & playing of the Desperate Battle of the Birds on SSP.

More soon, and thanks, 

Scott

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Taylor,
The Little Spree PM Donald MacLeod - https://youtu.be/Dp9xZ3CfLzA

Sheet Music https://pipingpress.com/preserving-a-legacy-of-ceol-mor-a-review/


Many resources here including access to MacLeod AND Burgess recordings -https://www.altpibroch.com/ps230/

I like the Burgess recording much, but will check out the others too.
Will photograph the Piobaireachd from Book 7 
Much about a drunk MacGregor it seems ... Opens creative possibilities conceptually :)"
All the best,
Scott 

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Taylor, 
Regarding - Light Music - Ceol Beag - here's the tune "Duncan Johnstone" played by two greatest pipes, John Burgess and Stuart Liddell - 
John Burgess playing beautifully expressive Light Music - Duncan Johnstone / Farewell to Nigg
https://youtu.be/0yS1JoEgqug

Duncan Johnstone - Hornpipe, Train Journey North - Hornpipe, Jig of Slurs - Jig, Clumsy Lover - Jig
https://youtu.be/DEWajsY6nok

As I think I've mentioned, I studied in a workshop in Glasgow in ~1981 with Duncan Johnstone (on a ZIS stipendium, while studying in Munich for a year at the time, with further blog entry details - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/turquoise-parrot-neophema-pulchella.html ) ... Duncan Johnstone was an amazing piper, & jovial, very Scots, Glaswegian (big gut), a character (may have played in greatest pipe bands, may have been in the police too) ... and was somehow brilliant ... and composed many great tunes of Light Music in particular I think. (And we've learned The Jig of Slurs, in the CoP Blue Tutor, Vol 3.  which Stuart Liddell plays so quickly above too:)
Wanna work on playing the jig "Duncan Johnstone" one of these weeks? And re-visit some Blue Tutor tunes - Mason's Apron (here's Stuart again twice - https://youtu.be/nsWSrDX7zrs and https://youtu.be/hYTK0vaVBHc re learning from LIddell and Burgess) in particular among a few ?
"The Little Spree" Piobaireachd ("The wee run amok" - could we rename this, and even re a kind of freedom, or also going berserk too - re the Scottish ?) sheet music to come, as well as some piano recordings of "The Flowers of Quern" for the D chanter (in the key of G, with one sharp)
Cheers, Scott
PSPer what we talked about last night, Daivd Hinson is the Auburn Univ Architect professor I know from Cuttyhunk (but I know Annie better, from my teens growing up there in summers). Please say hi to David and Annie Hinson if you or April ever run into them at Auburn University. (They're great:).

PPSSee, too, especially these pictures of chessmen of Lewis, and possible berserker (re interesting psychology of the Highlands and Islands too :)

How might we digitally make this #Viking #Berserker Isle of Lewis chess set come alive? Via #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego |Robotics > #WUaS3DPrinting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen…
-https://thornews.com/2014/06/01/norse-berserker-warriors-as-medieval-chess-pieces/… #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology
@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

How might we digitally make this #Viking #Berserker Isle of Lewis chess set come alive? Via #ActualVirtual #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego |Robotics > #WUaS3DPrintinghttps://t.co/iiKRIaKYSA
-https://t.co/tLi7DfYNFm #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ~

— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) October 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1321173530369667072?s=20



what is a Viking #Berserker Lewis chess set?  
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/weapons/berserkers/…
-https://historyextra.com/period/viking/the-truth-about-viking-berserkers/…
-https://ranker.com/list/viking-berserker-facts/philgibbons…
-https://ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/viking-berserkers-fierce-warriors-or-drug-fuelled-madmen-001472…
-https://thornews.com/2014/06/01/norse-berserker-warriors-as-medieval-chess-pieces/…
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
#OldNorse #OldNorseLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology
@WorldUnivAndSch ~

what is a Viking #Berserker Lewis chess set? https://t.co/H0ICnLUFe7
-https://t.co/0bUeKQ8cZ8
-https://t.co/9mVmxg6L56
-https://t.co/U2D5vhvNsv
-https://t.co/KiQ93EkKne
-https://t.co/rRi89A2G8X#OldNorse #OldNorseLanguages #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology @WorldUnivAndSch ~

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) August 20, 2019

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1163611941463457794?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1321173384550518784?s=20
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/self-heal.html


PPPSGordon Duncan is an inspirations (and it seems like Scottish rebels as pipers could head over to Brittany and L'Orient for piping in a different kind of cultural climate than in Scotland )1998 Gordon Duncan Trophée Macallan Fil Lorient
https://youtu.be/V6LF0S4CWWI

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crunluath Fosgailte (where fosgailte means OPEN)

TAYLOR,
Following up on the Piobaireachd (Pibroch) fingering movement at the end of the College of Piping's Yellow Tutor, vol. 4 - 
Crunluath Fosgailte (where fosgailte means OPEN)


This which you sent is interesting esp. 
Neil Clark - Falkirk Piping
The Little Spree, Crunluath Variation for Jo
Crunluath Variation (Fosgailte), instructional
https://youtu.be/lWhbRKlOZk0


Following up too on  ... 
Fosgailte (where fosgailte means OPEN) regarding 
fosgailte crunluath a mach cycle ?

and TAORLUATH's 
taorluath fosgailte in parallel ... 


Regarding again, The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)
While I see the word 'fosgailte' mentioned here ... 
The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)https://www.pipesdrums.com/wp-content/docengines/41641E1E764F4FE3A1E66634ED0CC21E.pdf
... it's regarding the taorluath Fosgailte (where Fosgailte means OPEN) so let's explore playing perhaps playing both the Taorluath fosgailte and The Crunluath Fosgailte here in LIEU of their a Mach variations ... And as a way to learn the fosgailte movement. What do you think?


Searched on the little spree piobaireachd crunluath fosgailte
found too with focus on fosgailtehttp://www.altpibroch.com/learning/modern-traditional-piper/taorluath-and-crunluath-styles/

and with mention of fosgailte crunluath a mach cycle
https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/81165141?mode=transcription
So shall we explore the Urlar of the The LIttle Spree next week, and perhaps head in the direction of 
fosgailte crunluath a mach cycle 

as an experiment even, and in learning too the CoP Yellow Tutor Vol 4 Crunluath fosgailte potentially as we choose to play it in certain Piobaireachds (and as we think this through further)?
Me thinks Piobaireachd is, metaphorically for Scots-identity pipers,Scottish 'bodymind' computer code :)
Seeking to develop email threads with related resources too here :)
Cheers, Scotthttp://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

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Gordon Duncan - piping creativity learning

Taylor, 

Played by Gordon Duncan (who also expanded the possibilities of what's possible on the Great Highland Bagpipe rock and roll-wise) ... 
Massacre Of Glencoe (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/TXmF5Kadk9g


And in a new Gordon Duncan thread ...
And here's a full album, and an interesting conception of piping, as the circular breath (but the album )Gordon Duncan - The Circular Breath - 1997
https://youtu.be/89unNbATg8k
but it's not Gordon Duncan's album Thunderstruck on the GHB ... 

(was sort of inspiring too for my SSP album ... "Honey in the Bag" if I were to record it to a physical CD ...)
Scotthttps://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/
This piping has a lot of R&R influence - both AC /DC, energy-wise, and moving ... 
Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan
https://youtu.be/_EwDlUHoDFo

Am curious about R&R energy and Piobaireachd ... could be interesting exploration ... and re your moving to Georgia (identity and culture-wise too ... while keeping in mind one's career, eg becoming a teacher + :)) ... bit of a trip to say the least :)

-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com 

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PM Stuart Liddell piping learning

Taylor,
The two most wise or thoughtful creative bagpiping videos I've seen (both by Stuart Liddell) - wisdom in bagpiping?
Piping The Way - Stuart Liddell West Highland Way Bagpipe Film
https://youtu.be/p1GR8qQulx4

The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013
https://youtu.be/wbikiMAjhDM

Both are so forward planning oriented, and even philosophical in a sense ... re thinking where one's heading with piping (inner bodymind) harmoniousness music ... as well ... 

Both are here ...  https://www.stuartliddell.com/media ...and ... Appreciating too his long-time alliance with amazing drummer DS Stephen McWhirter who is here too - https://www.stuartliddell.com/media

(Are these Stuart's or the web site manager's choices of Stuart's best video media to add for outreach and inspiration and performance too ?)

As a follow up on learning Ceol Beag (Light Music) from  Stuart Liddell, here again are ... 
Duncan Johnstone - Hornpipe, Train Journey North - Hornpipe, Jig of Slurs - Jig, Clumsy Lover - Jig
payed by Stuart Liddell
https://youtu.be/DEWajsY6nok
(compared with Burgess, for example - John Burgess playing beautifully expressive Light Music - Duncan Johnstone / Farewell to Nigg
https://youtu.be/0yS1JoEgqug)

Learning Piobaireachd from Stuart ? 
Listen ... 
Stuart Liddell performs Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2018
In Praise Of Morag

Stuart Liddell performs Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2018 from The National Piping Centre on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/298784074


Stuart Liddell plays Lament for the Children Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2016

Stuart Liddell plays Lament for the Children Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2016 from The National Piping Centre on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/189780958


Stuart Liddell plays Lament for the Laird of Anapool Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2015

Stuart Liddell plays Lament for the Laird of Anapool Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2015 from The National Piping Centre on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/143726072


Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2014: Stuart Liddell, Piobaireachd
The Lament for Colin Roy Mackenzie, Angus MacKay setting.

Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2014: Stuart Liddell, Piobaireachd from The National Piping Centre on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/110192278

Re Stuart Liddell's 'wisdom' am going to watch his Glenfiddich Piobaireachd videos for what I've observed before as his very steady or still-minded Piobaireachd meditation, perhaps as a feedback loop from the drones and his chanter back into his bodymind / brain :)

Teaching PiobaireachdLearning Piobaireachd,As meditation,Listening to the drones, like a circular circuit, and stilling one's mind, I chant, bodymind heading to oneness, inner releasing actionunfolding with the breath :)

Cheers, Scott https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping

http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

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