Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1980. An update by Geoff Hore, 2008 The writing in black font is from A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music. The update comments are in blue font. Cannon identified seven different editions of this famous tutor. He also mentioned a number of others with different dates but did not assign edition numbers to them. Moreover, he commented that...
Publication details not specified. The article is devoted to the issue of bagpipe playing in the German region of Nordgau. Wenn auch die Volksmusikforschung in der Oberpfolz,dem Sechsämterland und Egerland noch ziemlichin den Kinderschuhen steckt, so verfügen wir dennoch über einen relativ guten Wissensstand über eines der in diesem geographischen Raum beliebtesten,...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1984. — 73 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-412-3 The booklet is primarily addressed to amateur trombonist and sackbutes, Renaissance music included recorders, krummhorns and tenor cornetto, topic concentrates very much the physical characteristics of the sackbut, on their relationship to the distinctive sound of this instruments as compared to its...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 361 p. This Companion is the first book to cover so many diverse aspects of brass instruments and in such detail. It provides an overview of the history of brass instruments, and their technical and musical development. Although the greatest part of the volume is devoted to the western art music tradition, with chapters covering...
Yale University Press, 2012. - 316 p: ill. - Yale Musical Instrument Series This welcome volume encompasses the entire history of the bassoon, from its origins five centuries ago to its place in twenty-first-century music. James Kopp draws on new archival research and many years’ experience playing the instrument to provide an up-to-date and lively portrait of today’s bassoon...
Publication details not specified. It is a little known fact that the Scottish Highland Bagpipe or Piob Mhor is equally an Irish instrument. When many people think of an Irish bagpipe, if such an idea even comes to mind, they may recall the sweet-sounding chamber instrument known as the Uillean Pipes. Yet the Piob Mhor, or Warpipe, as it is known in Ireland, has a historic...
University Of Illinois Press, 2013. — 265 p. — ISBN: 9780252037887. Story One “Raman’s New Flute” (Vellore, India) Flute Types and Stereotypes Story Two “The Turtle, the Monkey, and the Jaguar” (Apinaye [Gk] Culture, Brazil) The Making of World Flutes Story Three “Manwoldae Is Autumn Grass” (Korean Poem) Flutes That Talk Story Four “Culture Heroes Discover the First Flutes”...
Publication details not specified. Bill Caudill reflects on how piping has shaped his life. Raised in North Carolina, of ancestors who immigrated from Skye to the Upper Cape Fear and Upper Pee Dee river valleys of the Carolinas, with a father who loved square dancing and was steeped in the oldtime music of Appalachia and a mother who played piano, no wonder Bill Caudill became...
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