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 Bagpipe Music   

 

There are various different types of pipe music for the various types of bagpipes.

 

As the Great Highland Bagpipe became a military instrument, so many of the tunes you hear bands play are marches, either Quick Marches or Slow Marches. The other tunes -the strathspeys, reels, hornpipes and jigs- are pipe tunes that have been derived from music for dancing, and to a lesser extent some tunes are versions of folk songs. Lately piping has evolved into scores in which other intruments and different tempos are involved: Symphonies. 

The original music that was played on the Great Highland Bagpipe, long before it became a military instrument, is a style known as piobaireachd (pronounced "pee-brock"), which is the "classical form" of music still played by solo pipers today. You can learn more facts on Pipe Music here.

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Quick Marches

 

2/4's:

  • 79th Farewell to Gibraltar

  • Inverness Gathering

  • The Dizzle

  • The Dundee Military Tattoo

  • Drunken Piper

  • The Siege of Delhi

  • Highland Laddie

  • The Black Bear

  • Earl of Mansfield

  • Coppermill

  • The Barren Rocks of Aden

  • The Brown Haired Maiden

  • Mairi's Wedding

  • Prince Charles' Welcome to Lochaber

  • Highroad to Gairloch

  • Corriechollies 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting

  • Sweet Maid of Glendaruel

  • Haughes of Cromdale

  • King Charles V's Army


4/4´s:

  • Scotland the Brave

  • The Old Rustic Bridge by the Bill

  • The Rowan Tree

  • The Meetings of the Waters

  • Lord Lovat's Lament

  • Loch Ruan

  • Bonnie Prince Charlie

  • Robin Adair

  • The Minstrel Boy


6/8´s:

  • Cock o' the North

  • The Bugle Horn

  • Bonnie Dundee

  • Dovecoat Park

  • Leaving Port Askaig

  • Colonel Robertson

  • Piobairechd o' Donhuil Dubh

  • Dundee City Police

  • Glendaruel Highlanders

  • Blue Bonnets Over the Border

  • Pipe Major Donald Maclean of Lewis

  • Pipe Major Dunnie Ross (C. Cattaneo Band Member)

  • Pipe Major Ronnie Smink (O. Llobenes Band Member)


Retreats:

  • Killworth Hills

  • Lochanside

  • Battle of the Somme

  • Sir Collin Campbell

  • When the Battle is Over

  • The Green Hills of Tyrol

  • Siege of Dubvrovnik

 

Strathspeys

 

  • ​Louden's Bonnie Woods and Braes

  • Because he was a Bonnie Lad

  • Captain Horn

  • Orange and Blue

  • Stumpie

  • The Devil in the Kitchen

  • Lady Madelina Sinclair

  • Nine Diamond

  • Lady Mackenzie of Gairloch

  • Caledonian Society of London

Reels:

 

  • The High Road to Linton

  • The Piper o' Drummond

  • Jock Wilson's Ball

  • The Kilt is my delight

  • Lexy McAskill

Jigs:

 

  • Paddy's Leather Breeches

  • Banjo Breakdown

  • Cork Hill

  • Glasgow Police Pipers

  • Galician Jigs

  • The Long Island Jig

  • The Curlew

  • Brest St. Mark

  • Taking Decisions (O. Llobenes Band Member)
  • Rory Macleod
  • Coppermill Studio

Hornpipes:

 

  • The Hen and the Turkey

  • Liverpool Hornpipe

  • Clumsy Lover

  • The Train Journey North

  • Euan MacInnes

  • Duncan Johnston

  • Chasing Shadows

Tunes For Highland Dancing:

 

  • Drops of Brandy (Scottish Lilt)

  • Whistle O'er the Leave O'ot (Seann Truibhas)

  • Gillie Calum (Sword Dance)

Symphonies:

 

  • Journey to Skye

  • Hellbound Train

  • Braveheart Medley

Slow Marches

 

  • Amazing Grace

  • The Mist Covered Mountains

  • Skye Boat Song

  • My Home

  • Highland Cathedral

  • Highland Cradle Song

  • The Dark Island

  • The Road to the Isles

  • Going Home

  • Loch Duich

  • Loch Rannoch

  • Morag of Dunvegan

  • The Flower of Scotland

  • The 25th K.O.S.B.

  • Tough Times (Cullybackey´s Slow Air)

  • Awakenings (O. Llobenes Band Member)

  • Sarah's Song

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