The bagpipe : the history of a musical instrument / Francis Collinson.

Author/creator Collinson, Francis M.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.
Descriptionxx, 257 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Bagpipe--History.

Contents Antiquity. The earliest pipes. The reed ; The chanter ; The drone ; Nasal inhalation -- Sumeria. The silver pipes of Ur ; The Ur seal -- Egypt: the Lady Maket pipes -- The last millennium B.C. -- Greece. The vocabulary ; The aulos -- Rome. The vocabulary ; Borrowed Greek words ; The invention of the bag -- Roman Britain. Scotland ; Indigenous pipes? ; The hornpipe -- Britain after the Romans. The Roman legacy -- Ireland -- Wales. Conclusion -- The bag (the chorus). The literary references -- The public records from 1350 -- 1500-1800. The Scottish town pipers ; The Kirk ; The great pipe ; The bagpipe in rural life ; The tunes ; The second drone ; England: the last act ; Ireland: the piob mhor -- Surviving bagpipes. Ireland: the uilleann pipes ; Northumbria ; The bellows ; The chanter ; The drones ; The Scottish small-pipes -- The Great Highland bagpipe. The early pipes. Battle instruments ; The harp ; The piob mhor -- The MacCrimmons. The Cremona tradition ; Piobaireachd ; Note on the Piobaireachd, 'I got a kiss of the king's hand' ; MacCrimmon piper contemporaries ; Canntaireachd ; Origins ; Sources ; Form -- The Highland companies before Culloden. The black watch -- The Jacobite risings -- Culloden -- The Disarming Act, 1747. The effects on the chiefs ; The Highland regiments after Culloden ; Evasion of the Act ; The cattle drovers ; The effects on piping -- The Highland Society. Piobaireachd competitions ; The pipers -- The third drone -- The nineteenth century. Staff notation ; The last MacCrimmons ; Pipers abroad -- The present -- Appendix I. Materials. Foreign woods -- Appendix II. Two indentures of apprenticeship. Scotland ; Egypt (13 B.C.) -- Appendix III. The bagpipes of other countries -- Glossary. Bagpipe components and other terms connected with musical reed-pipes.
Abstract Written by an authority on Scottish music, this book traces the evolution of the bagpipe whilst also narrating the fortunes of the 'Great Highland Bagpipe' itself. Exploring history and archaeology of civilizations as far removed from the Scottish Highlands as Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome this book offers a unique full-length history of one of the world?s most interesting and ancient musical instruments. Appendices list the bagpipes of other countries and the materials used in the instrument?s manufacture as well as a comprehensive bibliography.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteBibliography: pages 242-249.
LCCN 75305535
ISBN0710079133 :

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