The story of the bagpipe / by Wm. H. Grattan Flood.
| Author/creator | Flood, William H. Grattan |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication Info | London : The Walter Scott Publishing Co., ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. |
| Description | xx, 236 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The music story series Music story series. ^A643633 |
| Contents | Origin of the bagpipe -- Bagpipes of antiquity -- Greek and Roman bagpipes -- Ancient Irish bagpipes -- Ancient Welsh pipes -- Early English bagpipes -- The bagpipe in Scotland -- Ancient Scotch pipe-melodies -- The Scotch bagpipe in the sixteenth century -- Continental bagpipes -- The English bagpipe under the Tudors -- Irish pipes in the sixteenth century -- English bagpipes under the Stuarts -- Influence of the bagpipe on seventeenth-century music -- Irish bagpipes in the seventeenth century -- The bagpipe in France under Louis XIV -- The Great Highland pipe -- Scotch Jacobite period -- The Irish uilleann (union) pipes -- The Highland Society of London -- Scotch regimental pipers -- Lowland and Northumbrian pipes -- The bagpipe in the orchestra -- Some Irish pipers of the nineteenth century -- Present position of the Irish bagpipes -- Appendices: A. Chronological list of eminent pipers ; B. Glossary of terms, and pipe mechanism ; C. Composers who have employed pipe music ; D. Bibliography of the bagpipe ; E. Pipe bands in the British army ; F. O'Farrell's Treatise on the Irish Bagpipes (published in 1801). |
| LCCN | ca 14000265 |
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