A bright gold star for you, Taylor, in playing 'The Company's Lament" (a first, in a firmament of stars of Piobaireachd and Ceol Beag, little Scottish 'energy centers,' and where virtuosic Stuart Liddell plays his oft-played, old favorites like 'My Home' so brightly, - and music we create beyond this, Gordon Duncan-wise, for example, but in so so many other ways).
What I appreciated much is your playing of it in a relaxed and slow way (and per Ma and Marsalis - http://scottmacleod.com/
Appreciatively musically,
Scott
PS
returning to language first to explore 'classical music' ideas regarding Piobaireachd, or Ceòl mór:
classical -
"(typically of a form of art) regarded as representing an exemplary standard; traditional and long-established in form or style: a classical ballet"
music -
"vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion"
Ceòl beag or SSP light music -
folk -
"relating to the traditional art or culture of a community or nation"
(from the Apple dictionary on my MacBook Air laptop:)
(but perhaps we can pipe these linguistic distinctions out of the air:)
... and yet your Piobaireachd playing of an exemplary standard was wonderful, and regarding how understanding what classical music is can inform playing :)
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:20 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@
Hi Taylor,Greetings! Here's the Piobaireachd "The Company's Lament" for your enjoyment.(As I was watching newly an Angela & Victor Yoga video class - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/northern- white-cedar-thuja- occidentalis.html- from Greece (for the LA based but online Embodiment Conference), whose freeing teaching I appreciate, ) ... and bagpiping-wise, it occurs to me that I'd like to record the Piobaireachd "The Company's Lament," - as a kind of teaching - and send it to you before tomorrow when you're doing an e-recital of the same piece. We're getting into learning performance, in a sense too :) (Conceptually, am not sure if this means that I'm teaching SSP performance, - like at Juilliard and Curtis Music Schools, et al. teach "Performance" ... but I may be heading in this direction in conceiving of my teaching some:)Will send from sgkmacleod@worlduniv re more email account space therein than here :)(As I've mentioned, and FYI, I don't think however that I'm going to include any Piobaireachd on my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album).Looking forward to your playing The Company's Lament tomorrow evening.Musical cheers, Scott----- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor- World University and School- 415 480 4577- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Hi Taylor,
(As I was watching newly an Angela & Victor Yoga video class - https://scott-macleod.
... and bagpiping-wise, it occurs to me that I'd like to record the Piobaireachd "The Company's Lament," - as a kind of teaching - and send it to you before tomorrow when you're doing an e-recital of the same piece. We're getting into learning performance, in a sense too :) (Conceptually, am not sure if this means that I'm teaching SSP performance, - like at Juilliard and Curtis Music Schools, et al. teach "Performance" ... but I may be heading in this direction in conceiving of my teaching some:)
Will send from sgkmacleod@worlduniv re more email account space therein than here :)
(As I've mentioned, and FYI, I don't think however that I'm going to include any Piobaireachd on my upcoming "Honey in the Bag" album).
Looking forward to your playing The Company's Lament tomorrow evening.
Musical cheers, Scott
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
Excellent "The Company's Lament" this evening, Taylor!
Loved it, and thank you FOR PLAYING IT.
"MacIntosh's Banner" thru the Crunluath Singling (fingering movement) for next week ...
The Glasgow Police Pipers at 110 bpm + 120 bpm ...
And what makes Piobaireachd a classical music (and not)?
What is a classical music (am thinking Carnatic music from India, in addition to Western Classical Music) and how might this knowledge inform playing beautiful Piobaireachd even (and re it as a classical music from a Scottish way of thinking too:)
Super 'TCL' :) ![💖]()
Piobaireachd :)
Musical cheers, Scott
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Hi Taylor,
Just as a heads' up, -in beginning to listen to our music-making just now, the recording of your playing of "The Company's Lament" didn't come through, but another 27 minutes of the lesson did come through. So unfortunately I won't be able to give you any further direct feedback about it at a later date for example. I guess there's a mystery (from my perspective) editor.
Great playing of "The Company's Lament"!
Warm regards, Scott
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Taylor,
Here's a somewhat related Tweet re thinking about learning Scottish Small Pipes in terms of 'performance' as a focus at a music school ... And regarding your lovely playing of "The Company's Lament" ...
The 20 #BestMusicConservatories in U.S. http://bitly.com/
https://twitter.com/
The 20 #BestMusicConservatories in U.S. https://t.co/m6T93FQW6L where @WorldUnivAndSch seeks to create ~200 best #WUaSMusicConservatories in online Music Schools https://t.co/CcxbvIsxMc& eg for #ScottishSmallPipes#ScottishSmallPiping ~ https://t.co/Th9NYKGtS0& for performance https://t.co/ny9fzRrKIQ
— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) October 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/
The 20 #BestMusicConservatories in U.S. https://t.co/WLvhGB0ytw where @WorldUnivAndSch seeks to create ~200 best #WUaSMusicConservatories in online Music Schools https://t.co/5ef8ViZ82z& eg for #ScottishSmallPipes#ScottishSmallPiping ~ https://t.co/FTInKtiD7r& for performance https://t.co/C0TXp60x8W
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/
The person holding the pipes here reminds me of a friend, Andrew Lownie, with whom I went to Fettes College in Edinburgh in 1977-78 together, and who was learning the practice chanter at the time - https://twitter.com/
The person holding the pipes here reminds me of a friend, Andrew Lownie, with whom I went to Fettes College in Edinburgh in 1977-78 together, and who was learning the practice chanter at the time - https://twitter.com/
And here's the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow with a GHB Bachelor's degree - https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/
Re Hannah Fisher, and her fiddling, and with hints of Scottish whimsy, and a wholesome{?} vision, too -
you'll find a young guy on the left in the home music lesson by Hannah Fisher I think in a Scottish village somewhere -
https://twitter.com/
And check out all her photos in her Twitter - https://twitter.com/
And, liking Hannah's fiddling a lot, am appreciating her Gordon Duncan focus and mention here - https://www.perthshireamber.
Further aspects of Scottish culture re Scottish Small Piping in some ways ...
Musical Cheers, Scott
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Hi in Ligonier
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Good morning, Ma,
How are you in Ligonier? How is your 2 day adventure with Chris going? Where have you hiked?
A bright gold star for Taylor, in playing 'The Company's Lament" (and another good or very good lesson) - see my email to him below. Did you pass by the Ligonier Highland Games' fair grounds, by any chance?
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What did you think of the last 'debate' ... ?
Appreciating you much, Ma, in these transitional times I'm in :) Thank you! Hi to Ligonier :) ... are you getting once last hike in on your way home?
Love, Scott
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A bright gold star for you, Taylor, in playing 'The Company's Lament" (a first, in a firmament of stars of Piobaireachd and Ceol Beag, little Scottish 'energy centers,' and where virtuosic Stuart Liddell plays his oft-played, old favorites like 'Scotland the Braves' so brightly, - and music we create beyond this - Gordon Duncan-wise, for example, but in so so many other ways).
What I appreciated much is your playing of it in a relaxed and slow way (and per Ma and Marsalis - http://scottmacleod.com/
Appreciatively musically,
Scott
PS
returning to language first to explore 'classical music' ideas regarding Piobaireachd, or Ceòl mór:
classical -
"(typically of a form of art) regarded as representing an exemplary standard; traditional and long-established in form or style: a classical ballet"
music -
"vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion"
Ceòl beag or SSP light music -
folk -
"relating to the traditional art or culture of a community or nation"
(from the Apple dictionary on my MacBook Air laptop:)
(but perhaps we can pipe these linguistic distinctions out of the air:)
... and yet your Piobaireachd playing of an exemplary standard was wonderful, and regarding how understanding what classical music is can inform playing :)
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
Good morning, Taylor,
Here's Callum Armstrong with first some kind of innovation, before playing the jig I think "Cutty Sark"
I think he explores laterally re a variety of 'technically-oriented' piping traditions ... riff with him?
Worth riffing with (and learning from?) ... (and re performance thinking too ...)? ...
Steve Martin on banjo on a park bench
https://twitter.com/
amazing variety of facial emotions here with JS Bach I think by the VIRTUOSIC
Yo Yo Ma
https://twitter.com/
and re -
7 Practice expressively.
Be serious – invest yourself expressively.
http://scottmacleod.com/
Kathryn Tickell (pic only) after a hiatus on the stage performing -
https://twitter.com/
Steve Martin on banjo on a park bench
https://twitter.com/
amazing variety of facial emotions here with JS Bach I think by the VIRTUOSIC
Yo Yo Ma
https://twitter.com/
and re -
7 Practice expressively.
Be serious – invest yourself expressively.
http://scottmacleod.com/
Kathryn Tickell (pic only) after a hiatus on the stage performing -
https://twitter.com/
(who does something really uniquely wonderful and differently musical among border pipers, and pipers in general - and re Yogini Angela Farmer too artistically )
Was practicing jigs last night with facial emotions re Yo Yo Ma's video, and it opened a lot of horizons :)
All re learning performance too ...
May smartphone video record today, too, and Tweet, today re both Steve Martin and Yo Yo Ma ...
Musical Cheers,
Scott
A bit out of the box further
Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument
Articulating 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (by Marsalis and Ma) with developing how to practice loving bliss
http://scottmacleod.com/
Articulating 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (by Marsalis and Ma) with developing how to practice loving bliss
http://scottmacleod.com/
Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument
and in brand new ways re practicing the emotion, or neurophysiology, or feeling, of loving bliss brain chemistry (or bodymind chemistry), innovatively and brainstorming-wise ...
And here appears to be
The Glasgow City Police Pipers jig 4 part sheet music
without doublings, grace notes etc.
Let's explore further for Thursday :)
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Taylor,
blogged a bit about your "The Company's Lament" here - https://scott-macleod.
And do I detect a bit of Kathryn Tickell activism here at the top here presently - https://twitter.com/
https://twitter.com/
and is this she on the right (looking like she's in British 'society' ?)
https://twitter.com/
https://twitter.com/Sage_
and is this she on the right (looking like she's in British 'society' ?)
https://twitter.com/
https://twitter.com/Sage_
The idea of building an audience, and re performance, and regarding one of these Tweets where her actual performance (after a hiatus) is sold out, and so livestream 'passes' are available is pretty interesting :)
Cheers, Scott
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searched on 'stars that appear gold in the universe'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_star_extremes
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