Friday, April 9, 2021

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) * * * Gordon Duncan - piping creativity learning * * * PM Stuart Liddell piping learning ~ The two most wise or thoughtful creative bagpiping videos I've seen (both by Stuart Liddell) - wisdom in bagpiping? * * The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)

 

Piobaireachd playing thinking


Hi 😊 Ma,


I think I'm into setting further goals for both Piping and Piano per 

Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument

(& esp. ~ Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument ~ 


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



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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 - 

Sheet Music 


Many resources here including access to MacLeod AND Burgess recordings -

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

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/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

PS
Per 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:).


PPS
See, 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 ~

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 ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1163611941463457794?s=20


PPPS
Gordon 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



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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


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 ... 


... 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 fosgailte

and with mention of 
fosgailte crunluath a mach cycle

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, Scott



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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
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 ...)

Scott

This piping has a lot of R&R influence - both AC /DC, energy-wise, and moving ... 

Thunderstruck-Gordon Duncan
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




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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


The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013


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 - 

(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

(compared with Burgess, for example - 
John Burgess playing beautifully expressive Light Music - 
Duncan Johnstone / Farewell to Nigg


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 Piobaireachd
Learning Piobaireachd,
As meditation,
Listening to the drones, 
like a circular circuit, 
and stilling one's mind, 
I chant, 
bodymind 
heading to oneness, 
inner releasing action


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The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)

Taylor, 

'The Little Spree' is lyrically or melodically a nice tune to play (to my ear), after decades ... let's explore the Urlar on Thursday. 

Here's the Dane Claus Reiss again, playing "The Little Spree " for an online competition! (now how might we / WUaS add a live interactive component to even online SSP competitions ... perhaps with 'judges' like at Highland Games - for the very HELPFUL FEEDBACK - and (knowledgeable) audience as well)

The Little Spree - Claus Reiss
https://youtu.be/-5jkEPWSJjg

AND with a comment about fosgailte tunes -

"Bravo Claus!  I really enjoyed your performance.  I am particularly fond of fosgailte tunes. You do this one justice."

(Am in learning mode here about 'fosgailte tunes'), and the Web is helping. :)


And again - 
The Little Spree 
PM Donald MacLeod (tutorial) - 

Sheet Music 

Many resources here including access to MacLeod AND Burgess recordings -

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 :)"

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

Seeking to develop email threads with related resources too here :)


Here attached is the sheet music for 
The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)
 ... from the Piobaireachd Society Bk 7 (Angus MacKay manuscript)


And regarding 
The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)

While I see the word 'fosgailte' mentioned here ... 


... 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 fosgailte

and with mention of 
fosgailte crunluath a mach cycle

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 :)

Blog post yesterday with many of these recent Piobaireachd emails and more ~ 
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/tule-lake-basin.html ~ (and will likely add something too about Piobaireachds' Urlars,' in particular, 'nonmensurality' referring to another blog post) :)



PS
.. and Scottish Country Dancing-wise open band-wise, Taylor ... let's explore trying to play Light Music together remotely over the phone with headphones, and in video for visuals (audio off, except perhaps for a metronome equivalent somehow), - and using the Scottish Country Dancing pink and blue books - on both D and A chanters :)

Will seek to send you some keyboard recordings of one or two of the Blue book tunes thus far for the D chanter, especially for parts of tunes which are out of the 9 notes' range of D chanter  ...  


PPS
re
Crunluath breabach
searched on 
most beautiful piobaireachd with crunluath breabach movement








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