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The Piobaireachd Society of Central Pennsylvania Raising the Bar Volume 3, Issue 1 January 2008 The Piobaireachd Society of Central Pennsylvania Raising the Bar. The Piobaireachd pipers as the regions surrounding us. Society of Central Pennsylvania has While some of the pipers have dreams been promoting piping and of moving on to the Open grade, we piobaireachd for two years now. all have a goal of being able to play Along with the efforts of many others and enjoy high-quality pipe music. before us, we are seeing the bar raised in central Pennsylvania piping. I encourage you to set a goal for yourself this year. Whether it’s to It has been one of the goals of the play your first piobaireachd in front of Society to help create an arena to the group, to hear your first promote success among our professional piobaireachd contest, or individual pipers in central to place in piobaireachd competition Pennsylvania. The Society in many yourself. Set a goal for this year and ways by providing high-quality share it with the group. Let us workshops in the great music of the encourage you to reach your goal. bagpipes, by encouraging pipers to perform regularly, by sponsoring an If you aren’t able to develop a goal EUSPBA-sanctioned competition, for yourself, then help me work and by providing recitals and/or towards one of mine. I have a goal performances by Open-ranked pipers. where everyone of our members steps forward to present a tune or part of a We are starting to see the efforts of tune at one of our gatherings in 2008. several up-and-coming pipers pay off. I would love to be able to type a Congratulations to Geordie Hall newsletter in 2009 and say that we (Duncannon, PA) and Joshua Dye have had 30+ different pipers step up (Bethel, PA) on their recent upgrades to play a tune at some point to amateur Grade II. We also throughout 2008. congratulate all the pipers who have done well in solo competition this Our gatherings are a low stress OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA past season. environment to present a tune. We all enjoy the idiom, and we all encourage We look forward to seeing many our fellow pipers. We have fun while more local pipers progress through the we’re learning, and have fun while amateur grades and eventually to the we’re playing. Come and join us in professional Open grade. We look the greatest music on earth. forward to the day when central Pennsylvania can boast as many Open Inside this issue: We support Piobaireachd in What Should I Play? 2 Central Pennsylvania! Holiday Workshop with David Bailiff 3-4 • “Introduction to Piobaireachd” workshops for pipers new to piobaireachd. The Massacre of Glencoe 5 • Provide a forum for piobaireachd players Tunes for the Crunluathly Challenged Workshop 6-7 to perform Ceol Mor “Great Music” of the Upcoming Events 8 Highland Bagpipe. • Provide workshops for the Study of THE PIOBAIREACHD SOCIETY Piob Rocks! piobaireachd What Should I Play? I am often asked by students what tunes should a The following list of tunes was handed out at the beginning piper play for competition. I thought I 1991 Delco Workshop by, I believe, James would share two lists of tunes for the beginning McIntosh. It’s a list of recommended tunes for piper. Grade IV Pipers. 2/4 Marches The following list was published in The Piping Auchmountain’s Bonnie Glen Times (Vol. 57, No. 10, p. 39). The Inverness Gathering Capt. Norman Orr-Ewing Suggested Tunes for Junior Ceol Mor Events Jim MacBay’s Welcome The Atholl & Breadalbane Gathering • MacFarlane’s Gathering (PS BK7 / K / B) The Australian Ladies • Too Long in This Condition (PS BK7 / K / B) Charles Edward Hope Vere • Company’s Lament (College of Piping Tutor 4) The Dornoch Links • McIntosh’s Banner (College of Piping Tutor 4) 79th’s Farewell to Edinburgh (Gibraltar?) • Glengarry’s Lament (College of Piping Tutor 4) Murray’s Welcome • Lament for Alasdair Dearg (College of Piping The Siege of Delhi Tutor 4) King George V’s Army • Struan Robertson’s Lament (PS BK8 / K / B) Glenfinnan Highland Gathering • Lament for Donald of Laggan (PS BK8 / K / B) • Sir James MacDonald of the Isle’s Lament (PS Piobaireachd BK7 / K / B) Lament for Alasdair Dearg • Boat Tune (PS BK13) Lady Doyle’s Salute • Salute to Donald (PS BK8 / K) Glengarry’s Lament • Ewen of the Battles (PS BK12) Struan Robertson’s Salute • Clan Campbell’s Gathering (PS BK7 / K / B) The Little Spree • Catherine’s Lament (PS BK5 / K / B) Lament for the Old Sword • Wee Spree (The Little Spree) (PS BK7 / K / B) The Company’s Lament • Lament for the Old Sword (PS BK3 / K / B) Lament for Donald of Laggan • Lament for the Little Supper (PS BK8 / K / B) MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart’s Lament No. 1 • MacKays’ Short Tune (PS BK8) • MacLeod’s Controversy (PS BK10 / B) Good to Know • Munro’s Salute (PS BK11 / B) The Barren Rocks of Aden (4 Parts) The Battle of Killiecrankie PS BK = Piobaireachd Society Book # The Earl of Mansfield K = Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor The Haugh’s of Cromdale B = Binneas is Boreraig Neil Gow’s Farewell to Whisky The Hills of Perth The Muir of Ord Duncan McInnes VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1 Page 2 Holiday Workshop with David Bailiff The Piobaireachd Society of Central Pennsylvania was As we were enjoying our pizza over the lunch break, pleased to host David Bailiff of Oxford, PA, on Dave Bailiff shared a DVD of the 2007 World Pipe December 1, 2007, for our annual Holiday workshop. Band Championships. We were treated to the sounds of David Bailiff is an EUSPBA Adjudicator and the World Champion Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe professional (open) piper. Our off-season workshops Band of Northern Ireland and past champion Simon are a great to way to review new music as we start Fraser University Pipe Band of British Columbia, preparing for next year’s competition season. Canada. The workshop was held in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Those After lunch we had time to review two more tunes. in attendance included Andrew Chalfoun (Owings Mill, Dave went over “I got a Kiss of the King’s Hand”. MD), Jim Diener (Lancaster, PA), Karen Helm General Thomason states that his authorities for this (Lancaster, PA), Sherry Kreamer (Hershey, PA), tune are the Ballindalloch manuscript and Donald Thompson McConnell (Lititz, PA), and Michael Philbin MacKay: but the Piobaireachd Society (in Book 7) (Hopewell, NJ). states that the main authority for this tune as published by the Society is Angus Dave put together a list of MacKay. There is also some tunes to review that would doubt as to who composed it; keep us moving through the apparently it was either day. We started off with the Patrick Mor MacCrimmon or “Wee Spree”. The Little John MacCrimmon. On the Spree is on the 2008 Silver basis of the evidence, the Medal Tune list. This tune former would appear to be has a crunluath Fosgailte the more likely. Angus movement, and some time MacKay states that Patrick was spent covering that Mor played his pipes in the movement. According to presence of King Charles II Fionn, the three tunes, The at Worcester in 1651, and the Great, The Middling, and King being much pleased The Little Spree were all with his performance, and composed by a MacGregor also his fine military chief (and they do seem appearance, extended to MacCrimmon the honour of related) about a blacksmith who was very valiant in kissing his hand. MacCrimmon is then said to have battle but rather fond of strong drink which caused him composed this tune to commemorate the occasion. to be deranged from time to time. What is interesting is to consider the three degrees of ‘Spree’, whether there On the other hand, Henry Whyte states that the tune were indeed degrees of inebriation. In fact it would be attributed to Patrick Mor MacCrimmon was associated difficult to relate the music of any of the three tunes to with the appearance of Roderick MacLeod and his piper this story. Archibald Campbell in his introduction to the before King Charles II, but he cautiously adds that there Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor quotes Dr. Bett in reckoning seems to be no historic proof of this incident. The that The Little Spree is indeed one of the saddest tunes. Wardlaw MS says, “that in the camp at Torwood in 1651, the King, in presence of his army, notices a group Next, we covered “The Massacre of Glencoe” which is of some eighty pipers, all of whom were bare headed also on the 2008 Silver Medal Tune list. It is not known with the exception of one who was named to him as who composed it although Colin Cameron wrote that he John MacCrimmon. On enquiring why this man was thought it would be composed by Henderson who was wearing his bonnet and not the others, he was informed piper to MacDonald of Glencoe. Legend has it that that, although he himself was the King, the old man was Henderson played the tune we know as “Carles wi’ the “The Prince of Pipers”. MacCrimmon was then called Breeks” on the eve of the massacre. There is a separate by name and, coming to the King, he knelt, and the King article included in the newsletter about The Massacre of then extended his hand to kiss, and MacCrimmon is said Glencoe. VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1 Page 3 Holiday Workshop (Continued) to have played this particular tune immediately thereafter”. 1828 and had Glengarry’s Lament composed for him by his It is of interest to note that the author of the Wardlaw piper Archibald Munro.
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