Monday, October 25, 2021

Kilt rock, Isle of Skye, Scotland: ~ 10/25/21 open WUaS News and Q&A on Mondays (further) * Greetings! This is momentous, - the state of CA has sent the WUaS Corporation some tax bills for the past 4 years, the first time ever. I think they're all due by Wed., 10/27/21 * * * my mother, cousins' Alden & Marianne Briscoe (#BrakeleyBriscoeInc ...) & Stanford ** * * most beautiful Piobaireachds (classical Scottish bagpiping music) * * * most beautiful Piobaireachds (classical Scottish bagpiping music) * Having just played 'The Desperate Battle of the Birds' on Scottish Small Pipes, how to write and play a new Most Beautiful Piobaireachd at this momentarily momentous time - with the WUaS Corporation's growth? * Thinking out of the box, could we (I) write a Piobaireachd about the developing WUaS Corporation even ? Or about the advent of aging reversal genetic drug therapies as they emerge, and different ones perhaps? Or about a single realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs and with soaking, or a realistic virtual earth for history? * * Piobaireachd Society Book 7 & Most Beautiful Piobaireachd

 

open WUaS News and Q&A on Mondays (further) ~ 10/25/21


thanks for joining: WUaS News and Q&A 10/25/21 >https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FKa7dW1eHxAcKo67lsY7WNI_e05lC9Xn/view WUaS Corporation @WUaSPress is growing & is great opportunity WITH @WorldUnivAndSch Questions about free CC4 ocw.mit.edu -centric degrees?>Meeting@ worlduniversityandschool.org sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/home ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1452689919407624193?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1452693292726976515?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1452693389690867713?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1452693593496305664?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1452693501007728640?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1452701698204438529?s=20


WUaS News and Q&A - meets on Mondays at 10am Pacific Time here

http://meet.google.com/csp-szfv-xdw A) #WUaSFreeToStudents' online #WUaSPhDdegrees & 4-year #WUaSBachelorDegrees & w http://OCW.mit.edu B) #WikiSchools 

7,139 languages for open Teaching/Learning for #FreeUniversalEducation~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1442230037416079365?s=20



*

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

9:43 AM (1 hour ago)

to Prasanth, Zalmat, Aviv, VOLCANO, Anthony, Rohit, Nicolai, Ajit, Mircea, Andrzej, Iulian, Mohamed, Ants, Koh, Scott, Bill, Sainani, Larry, ks3649, Jayni, Kyle, tito, Yuping-CASPA, Yuping-CASPA, Juan, Juan, Edward, Shahbaz, Petros, Lukas, Scott, Charles, Nidahas, mazumdarp, Sid, nidahasvidyalaya, Marisol, Sri, Rohit, Rohit, Kat, michaeltsaimilpitas, Flying, Andi, Kristal, Hashim, Steve, Edward, Raphael, utopiaforever, disisjw242, Royal, Rema, abdelwaheb, Rafael, Julio, Hiền, Rick, Cj, Felipe, Syed, Suzana, Artur, Satoe, Zahra, Nurcan, Aswin, Scott, Prem, Reshma, Mala, Narjeet, WUaS, narjeet, tva, inbox, Karky's, Tamil, Chockkalingam, NTM, Felician, Tanya, dipikakhatri03, Fred, narjeetparo, sab.mukta, Gerd, Peter, Lydia, Denny, Magnus, Christian, Julian, Simone, Rohit, Reshma, John


Dear Larry, Ed, Sid, Roland, Hank, Dick, David, Robert, Bill, Alden, All, 

In about 15 minutes, - http://meet.google.com/csp-szfv-xdw (and experimenting with keeping the URL the same each week) - and here's News ... 

Greetings! This is momentous, - the state of CA has sent the WUaS Corporation some tax bills for the past 4 years, the first time ever. I think they're all due by Wed., 10/27/21, and I just picked them up in the WUaS PO Box Canyon 94516 yesterday (living in a 'safe house' elsewhere, as I am), having last checked the mail there just a few days prior to this).

The $878.81 tax bill to the State of CA is due by October 27, 2021

And the $2865.08 is for tax years ending 12/18, 12/19, 12/20 ... seems to be due then too. 

While WUaS Corporation doesn't have the money for this whatsoever, and these corporate taxes are high, astronomically high, given my current financial situation personally, I'm seeking to see these tax bills in a positive light, as if the state of California may be tossing the WUaS Corporation a frisbee with 2 tax bills totaling more than $3,700. Perhaps WUaS can find the money and toss a frisbee back to the state of California. I think it's good that the WUaS Corporation has further state of California engagement. 

Larry, All, thoughts about approaches to this? (Grants.gov just sent me another reminder to update the WUaS password, for example).

Sincerely, 

Scott

Will seek to Minute this in the upcoming WUaS 10/16/21 Minutes -  https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/10/wuas-agenda-news-for-101621wuas-agenda.html?view=sidebar



Hello Universitians, 

In about 15 minutes, - http://meet.google.com/csp-szfv-xdw (and experimenting with keeping the URL the same each week) -

 

WUaS News and Q&A - meets on Mondays at 10am Pacific Time here

http://meet.google.com/csp-szfv-xdw A) #WUaSFreeToStudents' online #WUaSPhDdegrees & 4-year #WUaSBachelorDegrees & w http://OCW.mit.edu B) #WikiSchools 7,139 languages for open Teaching/Learning for #FreeUniversalEducation~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1442230037416079365?s=20


Scott

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1442230037416079365?s=20






* * * 

my mother, cousins' Alden & Marianne Briscoe (#BrakeleyBriscoeInc ...) & Stanford 



On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 8:45 AM Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com> wrote:

Ma, Alden, all,

Just retweeted these nice pics of you which popped up in Google photos -


 Stanford university, San Jose's Rose Garden, my mother, cousins' Alden & Marianne Briscoe (#BrakeleyBriscoeInc - https://www.brakeleybriscoe.com) (@WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress @DianaHe23732776 @califf001 @JimSpohrer @scottmacleod @HarbinBook Languages-World Univ @sgkmacleod @geochurch)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1452660112720490501



my mother near

Stanford university, San Jose's Rose Garden, cousins' Alden & Marianne Briscoe (#BrakeleyBriscoeInc 

https://www.brakeleybriscoe.com) @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress @DianaHe23732776 @califf001 @JimSpohrer @scottmacleod @HarbinBook Languages-World Univ @sgkmacleod @geochurch~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1452660684022374400

Warm regards, Scott


http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm



-- 

- Scott MacLeod 

- 415 480 4577


- http://scottmacleod.com

- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm


- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School

- (planned for all instruments in all 7,139 living languages, each a wiki page to begin)





* * * 

most beautiful Piobaireachds (classical Scottish bagpiping music)


Taylor, 

Found some further great recordings of beautiful Piobaireachd we've emailed about already a bit :)

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

https://vimeo.com/143726072


Piobaireachd: Lament For The Laird of Annapool (William Livingston)

https://youtu.be/QuPnp5Ml3Yc



Found this great version played on an old portable gramophone from 1926 - 

piobaireachd: Lament for the Children - Pipe Major John MacDonald of Inverness, (1865 -- 1953).

https://youtu.be/98b-3sakfMo

which begins at 2:20 minutes (and the variation on the other side of the record)


John D. Burgess - Performing Piobaireachd "Lament for the Children"

https://youtu.be/yKLIW-T4GNo


The Lament For The Children (Donald MacLeod tutorial)

https://youtu.be/RAXW6jpgy04


"Lament for the Children" played by Willie McCallum

https://youtu.be/FWTIRzDt478


2014 Robert Watt Lament for the Children Pibroc'h Fil Lorient

https://youtu.be/gwC5u0ddD_I




Old Woman's Lullaby Pibroch Piobaireachd Ceòl Mór (Donald MacLeod plays)

https://youtu.be/xj9F3xvpXVg




Lament For Donald Duaghal MacKay (Donald MacLeod tutorial)

https://youtu.be/7c7toTEQMWg


Lament for Donald Dougal Mackay (William MacLean plays)

https://youtu.be/Z8bAvpix5x4




Lament For Donald Duaghal MacKay

https://youtu.be/7c7toTEQMWg


Lament for Donald Dougal Mackay

https://youtu.be/Z8bAvpix5x4


See you soon.

Scott




*

Taylor, 

Am amazed that after about 4 years since incorporating the WUaS Corporation (with AI Chat Bot software) in 2017, WUaS received the first ever tax bills for 2018, 19, 20 and 2021 yesterday evening when I picked them up at the WUaS PO Box in Canyon 94516. Although WUaS doesn't have any money, this is a bridge with the State of CA FTB ...

(World University and School incorporated as a nonprofit organization first in 2010).


Having just played 'The Desperate Battle of the Birds' on Scottish Small Pipes, how to write and play a new Most Beautiful Piobaireachd at this momentarily momentous time - with the WUaS Corporation's growth?

Scott



*

Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com>

7:35 AM (3 hours ago)

to Taylor


Taylor, 

How to write A Piobaireachd? How to write most beautiful Piobaireachd?

Piobaireachd seems often time to be a conversation with an event  ... A desperate battle, the birth of a son (Salute on the birth of Rory Mor MacLeod) ... Sometimes natural or in nature.  

And Piobaireachd seems to express a grandeur or majesty on the Scottish Highland Bagpipe ... But this is different on the Scottish Small Pipes in my experience. 

Thinking out of the box, could we (I) write a Piobaireachd about the developing WUaS Corporation even ? Or about the advent of aging reversal genetic drug therapies as they emerge, and different ones perhaps? Or about a single realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs and with soaking, or a realistic virtual earth for history? 

So what makes The Desperate Battle of the Birds' Piobaireachd beautiful to many pipers (in that, for example, it's on John Broadwell's list)?

Let's explore as we proceed with new Piobaireachd.

Scott




*

Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com>

7:45 AM (3 hours ago)

to Taylor

Or even write Piobaireachd about the abolition of modern forms of slavery (re abolitionism of the illegal sex industry, addressing questions of racism herein too), to bring a social conscience perspective to Piobaireachd (a bit akin to protest songs of the '60s, and anti-slavery songs of the past 2 centuries ... since 1833 in Britain with the anti-slavery act, and 1862 in the USA with the Emancipation proclamation ... for ex.) ... 

'The Emancipation Proclamation Piobaireachd 2024' ? ... as a name for a first such piece? :)

But how to write a beautiful Piobaireachd akin to, for me, The Desperate Battle of the Birds, brainstorming-wise?

:)

Scott

http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm




* * 

Piobaireachd Society Book 7 & Most Beautiful Piobaireachd

Taylor,

Although I have Books 3,4 and 7 of the Piobaireachd Society musical scores, I have a recollection that Book 7 is one of the nicest, with the nicest collection of tunes. Am seeking to listen to all of them on Youtube, re musical, melodious, lyrical Piobaireachds ... and perhaps we can come into conversation about some of these too. This approach too means that I could share the sheet music. It would be interesting and great to get another list of the most beautiful Piobaireachds up on the web, in a new way (and that many people might also agree with ... as one way of understanding beauty in Piobaireachd ... the shared appreciation within the piping world and culture).

Scott


-- 

- Scott MacLeod 

- 415 480 4577


- http://scottmacleod.com

- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm


- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School

- (planned for all instruments in all 7,139 living languages, each a wiki page to begin)




*

Taylor,

Have listened to 2/3rds of the tunes in Book 7 and I think MacCrimmon's Sweetheart is becoming my next favorite ... do you know this piece? 

Will send you the pieces and some recordings for your listening exploring soon-ish 

But in this Book 7 this is still most beautiful to my ear ... 

Just played with this John D Burgess' The  Desperate Battle on B flat chanter...

  https://youtu.be/Mmxp3btwXzs


Very enjoyably ... Due to melody of tune I think 

All tunes out of the depths of time, on a very primal instrument,

Scott





*

Taylor Warren

Sun, Oct 24, 4:51 PM (18 hours ago)

to me

Doing a bit of research on Youtube. Sounds like it's a favorite among many piobaireachd performers and a challenging tune to pull off properly. 

Are you familiar with P.M. Jimmy McIntosh's videos? He covers this and a few other piobaireachd tunes. I find them useful.

https://youtu.be/ZZ9tUBI0ToA




*

Taylor, 


am seeking to facilitate your learning ... Want to choose some of these (since I can send you the sheet music) to work on on your own even (or in sessions)? 

Here are recordings of nearly all of Books 7's pieces, but 3 only have tutorials, since I couldn't find great versions of the piece being played - 


The Vaunting
Brian Donaldson 1991
https://youtu.be/SPhfDLe_IAo
Donald MacLeod tutorial
https://youtu.be/aozLL1_I7Uk



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



The Little Spree
Pipe Major Donald MacLeod (tutorial)
https://youtu.be/Dp9xZ3CfLzA

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

The Little Spree (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/ITCVvGqv45A



The old man of the shells (Setting No. 1)
Roderick MacLeod
https://vimeo.com/143726074

Donald MacLeod tutorial
https://youtu.be/lq_6Jh5JSDw

Stuart Easton | Old Men of the Shells
https://youtu.be/ujr81KpEt5w
Christchurch 27/07/19



The old man of the shells (Setting No. 2)
?



The MacKayx' Banner
Gordon Walker
https://youtu.be/1Z8ipmeLtMI

Bob Nicol or Bob Brown
Cantairreachd
https://youtu.be/MckA_A8uX0o



The Stewart's White Banner
Metro Cup 2015: John Patrick - Piobaireachd "The Stewart's White Banner"
https://youtu.be/Q84nuAA-xAk

Donald MacLeod tutorial
https://youtu.be/abRfGKMbEUQ




Clan Campbell's Gathering

Colin MacLellan
https://youtu.be/NnZD2_u5zXo
https://www.pipereeds.com/piobaireachd-played-by-colin.html (Are these his favorites - idealized pictures of Scotland too? )


Clan Campbell's Gathering Pibroch Piobaireachd Ceòl Mór
Donald MacLeod tutorial
https://youtu.be/34ptRgjiZGg



Sir James MacDonald of the Isles' Lament

Sir James MacDonald of the Isles' Lament
Donald MacLeod playing
https://youtu.be/t1t0qRs4IGs

Donald MacLeod tutorial
https://youtu.be/rPUs777U86w

Lament for Sir James MacDonald of the Isles
Jimmy McIntosh - tutorial?
https://vimeo.com/13539318



Queen Anne's Lament

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod M.B.E. - Tutorial
https://youtu.be/wuKb73r8kGs



The parading of the MacDonalds

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod M.B.E. - tutorial
https://youtu.be/sF6vas4Q84w



Clan Ranald's Salute 

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod M.B.E. - tutorial
https://youtu.be/vEWfpVMZGco



Too long in this condition

Robert U. Brown - Topic
https://youtu.be/QM78Ok0HurI

1992 Andrew Wright Too Long in This Condition Pibroc'h St Herbot 29
https://youtu.be/dRXAKIpBuos

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod M.B.E. - Topic - tutorial
https://youtu.be/nPlNL32WP6w



MacCrimmon's Sweetheart
Donald Macpherson
https://youtu.be/P4nyebRbZoE

Fred Morrison
https://youtu.be/BnywtKBfbnY

 P.M. Jimmy McIntosh  tutorial 
https://youtu.be/ZZ9tUBI0ToA



The MacFarlane's Gathering 

The MacFarlanes' Gathering - Piobaireachd
William McCallum

The MacFarlane's Gathering
Pipe Major Donald MacLeod M.B.E. - Topic
https://youtu.be/F5C4RLO1sgY



I got a kiss of the King's Hand 
1993 Roddy MacLeod I got a Kiss of The King's Hand Concert Pibroc'h Commana 29
https://youtu.be/i8H2HHs6Iqg

Alasdair Henderson plays I Got A Kiss Of The King’s Hand Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2017
https://vimeo.com/241165947

Pipe Major Donald MacLeod M.B.E. - Topic
https://youtu.be/pqC610AK4lE


These are the tunes in the order of the index in the Piobaireachd Society Book 7 and I've added them to -

Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór

Pibroch, Piobaireachd or Ceòl Mór - 

Musical cheers, 
Scott

I've also added many of our recent emails to my blog post from today, 10/25/21 and much more as well - 
Cheers! 






Scott MacLeod musicalmacflower@gmail.com

8:15 AM (2 hours ago)
to Taylor
Taylor, 

Here's the beautiful 
Oh Freedom - from the Golden Gospel Singers

Pics are interesting ...

Liking the 'Where's the Church?' sign, and the man in the collar holding the Black kids' hand at a protest march ... Your FDR is here too ... but not in the Georgia deep south at a hot springs? for his polio :) (Just found this 'Natural Hot Springs in Georgia' - https://www.tripping.com/guides/natural-hot-springs-in-georgia)

There are definitely some Piobaireachding the Blues' opportunities in this recording even ... With harmonies as drones 

How to write most beautiful (Woman) Piobaireachd coming into conversation, for me, with The Desperate Battle? ... 

Musical Cheers,
Scott



PS
Friends have been focused on these issues for a long time, not however creatively with Piobaireachding the Blues' opportunities ...


Two messages from Friends Association for Higher Education

First, it's not too late to register for the October event in this year's Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series; poster attached.  Scroll down for registration details.

Second, Earlham School of Religion asks that we spread the word about two full-time faculty positions

Rethinking the Canon: 
The Promise of Liberatory Reading/Teaching/Research

Tuesday, October 26, 2021
7:30-9 pm, eastern

To register: tinyurl.com/FAHE-10-26-21
 
Panelists:
Ada Jaarsma,
Professor of Philosophy
Mount Royal University

Sarah Willie LeBreton,
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Professor of Sociology
Swarthmore College

Namrata Mitra,
Associate Professor of English
Iona College


Moderator:
David R. Ross
Research Professor
Department of Economics 
Bryn Mawr College


*


Taylor, 


Here's the beautiful 

Oh Freedom - from the Golden Gospel Singers

https://youtu.be/veiJLhXdwn8


Pics are interesting ...

Liking the 'Where's the Church?' sign, and the man in the collar holding the Black kids' hand at a protest march ... Your FDR is here too ... but not in the Georgia deep south at a hot springs? for his polio :)


There are definitely some Piobaireachding the Blues' opportunities in this recording even ... With harmonies as drones 


How to write most beautiful (Woman) Piobaireachd coming into conversation, for me, with The Desperate Battle? ... 

Musical Cheers,

Scott




PS

Friends or Quakers have been focused on these issues for a long time, not however creatively with Piobaireachding the Blues' opportunities ...



Two messages from Friends Association for Higher Education


First, it's not too late to register for the October event in this year's Quaker Leadings in Higher Education series; poster attached.  Scroll down for registration details.

Second, Earlham School of Religion asks that we spread the word about two full-time faculty positions


Rethinking the Canon: 

The Promise of Liberatory Reading/Teaching/Research

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

7:30-9 pm, eastern


To register: tinyurl.com/FAHE-10-26-21

 

Panelists:

Ada Jaarsma,

Professor of Philosophy

Mount Royal University


Sarah Willie LeBreton,

Provost and Dean of the Faculty

Professor of Sociology

Swarthmore College


Namrata Mitra,

Associate Professor of English

Iona College



Moderator:

David R. Ross

Research Professor

Department of Economics 

Bryn Mawr College



Taylor, 
I found this very meditatively beautiful just now - 

Lament For The Earl Of Antrim
Jack Lee
Piobaireachd: Lament For The Earl Of Antrim
https://youtu.be/AP6KgD8NkxI

and this Roddy MacLeod from 1993 also quite lovely 

I got a kiss of the King's Hand 
1993 Roddy MacLeod I got a Kiss of The King's Hand Concert Pibroc'h Commana 29 (beautiful Church!)
https://youtu.be/i8H2HHs6Iqg
where this tune is in Book 7 ... 


Interesting to hear Ali Henderson play this same tune at the Glen Fiddich - 
Alasdair Henderson plays I Got A Kiss Of The King’s Hand Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2017
https://vimeo.com/241165947


And I come back to John D Burgess for his extraordinary to my ear Piobaireachd playing, eg again - 
The Lament for Mary Macleod
(and with my favorite Piobaireachd The Desperate Battle ... )

What are your favorite Piobaireachds currently, as you listen to them further ... and in terms of the beauty of the melody and their 'lyricism' and musicality of the theme? 

Musical Cheers, 
Scott
Am not sure where I'm heading with 'Oh Freedom' the Gospel song (bluesy too) ... and re Piobaireachding the Blues ... and in a sense a new musical freedom playing a new genre of Piobaireachd ... stay tuned :)




*

Taylor, 

I might posit some of Book 7 as most beautiful Piobaireachds too ... must listen further .. 

Most beautiful Piobaireachd .. ?


Here's Colin MacLennan's Piobaireachd recording page, and I wonder if these are some of his favorites, as another possible list ... with amazing videography, FOR HISTORY too (per last email with this link) ... interestingly :)
More listening ahead ... 

Cheers, Scott
Much of these in today's blog post - and check out Kilt Rock (on the isle of Skye) ... which I just today learned of ... 
... kinda cool what one can see in rocks and sea cliffs :)



--


-- 

- Scott MacLeod 
- 415 480 4577


- World University and School
- (planned for all instruments in all 7,139 living languages, each a wiki page to begin)





* * * *

Tu October 26, 2021


Dear Taylor, and Stuart, 


Greetings. How to write a Piobaireachd? Am beginning a new thread about this, having emailed Taylor in these regards yesterday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/kilt-rock-isle-of-skye-scotland.html?m=0 - and even regarding 'Piobaireachding the Blues' or newly "Piobaireachding Gospel Abolition Songs" 

So I searched on: 
Is Gospel the blues?

"Gospel blues (or holy blues) is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music."


And when I searched on

Is the "Oh Freedom" Gospel song the blues?

I found that Odetta sings this on an album with the word 'blues' in it - eg  with Odetta, who recorded it as part of the "Spiritual Trilogy", on her Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues album,[1]  -

Cool ... and I find this song - 
Odetta "Freedom Trilogy"
https://youtu.be/KGhZuw8AXEc

- as beautiful in many ways as John D Burgess playing "The Desperate Battle of the Birds" - 
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
John Burgess
https://youtu.be/Mmxp3btwXzs

This is profoundly beautiful - 

ODETTA in Paris
Another Man Done Gone 
https://youtu.be/VTR2PQCGm94

and "Piobaireachding the Blues' - able esp  too I'd think ... 
So, first, how to write a piece of Piobaireachd? Stuart, do you or have you taught this before?


And when I searched on this - how to write a piece of Piobaireachd? - I didn't find anything initially helpful ( - https://bagpipe.news/2020/04/30/the-structure-of-piobaireachd-1/ ?). But I think I could riff with an existing piece of Piobaireachd, structure-wise, to write a new piece of Piobaireachd.


So I started playing 'Oh, Freedom' on the piano keyboard this morning, and, voila, starting on the G below middle C, it worked melody-wise, and up to the A above middle C ... corresponding with the bagpipe chanter in A mixolydian on the SSP. But when I tried to play this on the chanter itself, with drones ... heaven forbid ... the mixolydian scale didn't work at all for playing 'Oh, Freedom' as I know it. (How to play a C on the piano on the chanter, for example?) Yet, could exploring this new approach to playing 'Oh, Freedom' on the mixolydian chanter reflect a kind of sound of Piobaireachd even? :) 

And how to write many, many Piobaireachd as beautiful as "Oh, Freedom" - to my ear ... (and could the message help even, - as an appreciator of -60s protest songs, as well as anti-slavery songs)>? 


So, then, I wanted to find out what pieces of Piobaireachd begin on low G, and searched, but didn't find anything. Oh, for machine learning and AI, to help me do better searches on this, on all of Piobaireachd - and also coded for most beautiful Piobaireachd! For then I could 'riff' in a sense with the genre of Piobaireachd beginning on low G, with some existing pieces of Piobaireachd ... with "Oh, Freedom"  and invent "Piobaireachding Gospel Abolitionism"

One goal of mine would be for listeners to hear hints of "Oh, Freedom" in a new Piobaireachd composition improvising on this Gospel song, and be as beautiful as Odetta singing, but in the Piobaireachd genre. (Could I with assistance write a machine learning program for this)?:)

(For your information, I'm learning Piobaireachd from Stuart, and teaching Piobaireachd to Taylor), both online - from Scotland, and in Georgia in the southeast USA.

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? Stuart, how do you write a piece of Piobaireachd? :)

Musical regards, Scott



By the way, I added recordings from all of Book 7 of the Piobaireachd Society to these following World Univ & Sch Wiki School pages - 


so we or anyone can add further resources to, or learn from, or create with, these

- and here too - 


--

-- 

- Scott MacLeod 
- 415 480 4577


- World University and School
- (planned for all instruments in all 7,139 living languages, each a wiki page to begin)







*

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kilt-rock-and-mealt-falls



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Mealt_Waterfall_with_Kilt_Rock%2C_Isle_of_Skye.jpg


https://the-earth-story.com/post/132075077826/kilt-rock-the-kilt-rock-formation-located-on


No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.