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Scottish Small Piping - 'Mackintosh's Banner' Piobaireachd

Hi Taylor,

Thanks for these.

"Hi, Scott.

Here's the piobaireachd "Lament for the Children" by MacDonald as mentioned earlier:

https://youtu.be/zCRbURorYE8

And here's The Silver Spear (it's actually a reel):

https://youtu.be/nPB8tSdnL6I

Also, could you resend parts two and three of Glasgow Police? Thanks.

Good lesson tonight."

Here's an excellent version of

"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"
https://youtu.be/5mrSdRPVY0A
Major Gavin Stoddart performs the piobaireachd

Musical cheers,

Scott

For some inspiration in 'west coast' GHB light music -

Maui Celtic Bagpipes and Drums band presents: World Champion Bagpiper, Jack Lee, performing "Swagger", "Afternoon at the Green Monster", and "Don't Stop Rockin'", at the Makawao Union Church, March 18th 2006.

Jack Lee: World Champion Bagpiper Live on Maui '06

https://youtu.be/Z4CRwrR_lBE

Jig
Reel?
Hornpipe

PPS

Dugald MacNeill, at the College of Piping for years, and playing "The Glengarry's Lament" and a teacher of mine at a camp (and of many) -

https://bagpipe.news/2020/08/28/stories-of-the-tunes-glengarrys-lament/

PPPS

Shotts & Dykehead Pipe-Major Robert Mathieson

https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/Robert-Mathieson-joins-SFU/

(Met him once in Scotland in 2003-2004 - and was a lead in an oft winning Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band, here playing in Pittsburgh, PA, I think, and who seemed to have moved to Canada, and been piping in Simon Fraser Pipe Band in 2010:)

Robert Mathieson Playing Tommy Macdonald of Barguillean march at Balmoral School of Piping

https://youtu.be/2Rj7PWbwNJc

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

Hi Taylor,

I really enjoyed and found interesting, and beautiful in a simple way, (your sending) Allan MacDonald playing "Lament for the Children" on the Scottish Small Pipes, and singing with it too -

"Here's the piobaireachd "Lament for the Children" by MacDonald as mentioned earlier:

https://youtu.be/zCRbURorYE8 ... "

It's innovative on the SSP in my experience, and I appreciate his confidence too ... he's not worried about the lack of amazing skirl of the GHB with the SSP for example ...

So, for Thursday,

"MacKIntosh's Banner"

Taurluath and Crunluath movements of MacKIntosh's Banner, and re the CoP Yellow Tutor Vol. 4 Piobaireachd, lesson 15 (p. 25), slowly

and here are

Donald MacLeod ...

MacKIntosh's Banner
https://youtu.be/joCGHsIGVJM

And another playing on GHB practice chanter of

"Mackintosh's Banner, for Hannah"
https://youtu.be/7E1GQI4Oqdc
Neil Clark - Falkirk Piping

and

Urlar or

the first line of

"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"

and here again is an excellent version of

"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"
https://youtu.be/5mrSdRPVY0A
Major Gavin Stoddart performs the piobaireachd

and

The Glasgow City Police Pipers

parts 3 and 4

The Glasgow City Police Pipers, jig, 4 part sheet music

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=thesession.org/tunes/1181.no-ext/0001

without doublings, grace notes etc.

and

The Mason's Apron,

hornpipe, at greater than 74-82 bpm (from CoP Blue Tutor Vol. 3)

(and re tempos - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html)

Am appreciating what Yo Yo Ma, and Stuart Liddell, do uniquely with music to make it beautiful -

Yo Yo Ma
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1320208148259573766?s=20

And how to bring Yo Yo's remarkable virtuosic beautiful engagement with music into playing Piobaireachd on the Scottish Small PIpes

(and re tempo -

Steve Martin
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1320207703025848320?s=20 )

Here's Stuart Liddell playing "My Home" or 'Mo Dhachaidh' and listen to the steadiness, too, of his drones, as well as the 'brightness' of the high notes of his chanter ... and listen too to the tempo of the tunes that follow ...

and here again is a Scottish drum corp playing drum settings for PLAYING WITH -

Pipe Band Drumming : 6/8 Marches
https://youtu.be/6pdxlwK6vZg

(I'm a fan of 6/8s :)

more difficult to play with these, but one does get a sense of piping with drumming

Stuart Highlanders - Holdaway & Fletcher - Hornpipe & Jigs - Pipes+Drums 2015
https://youtu.be/OWK3aDXikpw

... and to inform the hornpipe of The Mason's Apron, and the jig of "The Glasgow Police PIpers" - re tempos too :)

time to begin playing with other instruments? :)

Am also getting into some piping ethnomusicology in exploring these Piobaireachds, which I'll share with you further by and by -

The Company's Lament

Mackintosh's BannerLament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry

Glengarry's Lament

Will share Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Playing Piobaireachd with you as well soon ... Thursday potentially ...

We probably won't have time for all of the above, but let's see what unfolds on Thursday ...

Musical cheers, Scott

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

Taylor,

Great to hear "The Silver Spear" too - and on Walsh Smallpipes with the baritone drone tuned to D

The Silver Spear (it's actually a reel):

https://youtu.be/nPB8tSdnL6I

What key is "The Silver Spear" in, I wonder?

And what key are all these tunes in (for learning purposes) ?

The tunes are:
Oot Best da Vong
The Silver Spear
The Gray Old Lady of Rassay
The Clougher

Thanks for sending. The baritone drone sounds good, and adds!

Cheers,

Scott

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Previous bagpiping teachers - wow!

Hi Taylor,

Wow, in seeking out good Piobaireachd recordings for

The Company's Lament

Mackintosh's Banner

Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry

Glengarry's Lament

I had some wow experiences yesterday evening, all a little piping ethnomusicological as well -

Just came upon:

Joyce MacFarlane, based in Pittsburgh, PA, in the mid-1970s, and who was my 2nd piping teacher, and this recent picture of JOYCE (in Scotland with her husband Jimmy McIntosh, also of Pgh) brought me 'there' in some time travel, here -

Jimmy McIntosh, DR’s Scrapbook and the Day John MacFadyen Did the Double

https://pipingpress.com/2018/05/17/jimmy-mcintosh-drs-scrapbook-and-the-day-john-macfadyen-did-the-double/

And then John MacFadyen in this same article was a teacher at a College of PIping summer camp near the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in NC for a summer or two, thanks to Sandy Jones bringing him over from Scotland -

(Drawing parallels, I think "Doing the Double" - or "Did the Double" re John MacFadyen winning the 2 top piping prizes in Scotland in one year, could be somehow similar to WUaS having created 2 legal entities in California - the non-profit in CA (and 501 c 3 federally) World University and School, and the 2) for profit general stock company the WUaS Corporation, in California) - a kind of different "Doing the Double" :)

"John had pulled off the double, winning the Clasp and Gold Medal at the same meeting"

"winning both the Gold Medal competition and the Clasp at the Northern Meeting"

https://pipingpress.com/2018/05/17/jimmy-mcintosh-drs-scrapbook-and-the-day-john-macfadyen-did-the-double/

(Jimmy McIntosh's brogue, as you'll hear in another "Alasdair Dearg" email thread I'll send you, is very broad, a bit hard to understand, and he's lived in Pgh PA for decades, having left Scotland :))

John MacFadyen -

http://schoolofpiping.com/photo_album/Pipers%20of%20Past%20Years%20©/slides/john-macfadyen.html

And here's a picture of John MacFadyen from the cover of his 1st volume of Bagpipe Tunes -

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d4/1c/e0/d41ce09c90a14b18956e59553114749f.jpg and https://www.pinterest.com/pin/196047390014890089/ - some of which I've shared with you, and many of which I find very 'lyrical.'

Recordings by him - https://www.discogs.com/John-MacFadyen-Champion-Piper-1968/release/15327136

And something further about John MacFadyen - https://www.pipesdrums.com/tag/john-macfadyen/

Ed Krintz was my first piping teacher, and thanks to Sandy Jones, both here:

Ed Krintz has been a performer of the highland bagpipe for over 51 years, and has studied under P/M Sandy Jones, James MacIntosh, and the late John MacFadyen. He is a panel adjudicator for the EUSPBA, and currently teaches piping in the Charlotte, NC area.
http://www.naapd.org/instructors.php
https://www.timmyhordstudio.com/piping
http://www.pipebandsnc.com/brief-band-histories/

And Stuart Liddell is a teacher of mine in a sense too, and re -

Am liking how Stuart LIddell kind of becomes ONE with his pipes ... and then soars with high very rhythmic 'flight' flying directly into the sun or the light :)

Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 4 of 8
https://youtu.be/e7zvKbl1R54

15 Solo Stuart Liddell Inverary Pipe Band 2013 Royal Concert Hall
https://youtu.be/XoQt5kvnweA

At 5:20 is about as free as he gets ...

Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 5 of 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWWgJk2MyhU

Uniquely Stuart LIddell brilliant musical expressiveness ... and check out Gordon Duncan for other unique and brilliant Bagpiping musical expressiveness ... they've both created their own sound ..

Just some thoughts about previous bagpiping teachers - wow - and NOW :)

Scott

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

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Scottish Small Piping - 'Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry' Piobaireachd

Hi Taylor,

Good lesson (in Skype on a cell phone)!

I just sent you "Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Interpreting Piobairreachd" as PDF from another email address.

See if you can begin to hear these in the Piobaireachds we've learned so far.

On with Lament for Alasdair Jearg MacDonnell for next week.

Musical cheers, Scott

4 versions in addition to the Yellow Tutor's version - what makes for beauty among these - in listening closely? ...

Here's an excellent version of

"Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry"
https://youtu.be/5mrSdRPVY0A
Major Gavin Stoddart performs the piobaireachd

Robert Brown

Lament For Alasdair Dearg MacDonald (Piobaireachd)
https://youtu.be/60foYtXrx_I
About Bob Brown and the Bobs of Balmoral

The Bobs of Balmoral – Robert U Brown and Robert B Nicol
https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/the-bobs-of-balmoral-robert-u-brown-and-robert-b-nicol/

Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry, for David
https://youtu.be/S53Kd1WEZB0
Neil Clark - Falkirk Piping

Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnel of Glengarry
https://youtu.be/Ih3Dr7MUyMM
AndrewCelticPiper - Andrew Dickinson

Alasdair Dearg
A lesson on the short tune "Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry", with Jimmy McIntosh, M.B.E.
https://vimeo.com/11388661
Jimmy McIntosh

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

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Newspapers of record

Ma,

You sounded pretty good, after what you said about being down the night before.

How will they report the unfolding recounts that could decide this election, I wonder?

Here are the 4 newspapers of record in the US, and the electoral college tallies as I send this:

https://www.latimes.com/

B - 264 T - 214

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

B - 253 T - 214

https://www.nytimes.com/

B - 253 T - 214

https://www.wsj.com/

B - 264 T - 214

AND

https://www.bostonglobe.com/

B - 264 T - 214

"Biden leads as battleground states continue to count votes
The presidential contest was still undecided Wednesday night, even after Joe Biden won Michigan and Wisconsin. Races in Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia were close, and the Trump campaign prepared legal challenges."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/04/metro/biden-takes-lead-michigan-race-still-too-early-call/

These papers and the media in general could continue to report these electoral college wins for Biden (https://twitter.com/JoeBiden) as the state vote counts shift around in the upcoming days? This could be hopeful.

Really nice to talk < Ma !

Love, Scott

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Ma, we seem to be entering a phase of counting culture in this country and election, different from counterculture, and how this is reported, and informs, symbolically the news, media, newspapers of record, and the conversation about the way the people have voted - re the electoral college and the popular vote - and the badness of tRump, and relative goodness of Biden and Harris is part of this. What do you think? And how did you sleep last night? Love, Scott

Ma,

And in this liminal betwixt and between counting culture time, is there a kind of American football approach to this election, of letting the clock run out on the game, so the winning team with the highest score, which then decides to apply this strategy execute this play, wins? And are the newspapers, familiar with this sports' strategy in their reporting, simply applying it editorially, writing-wise, and symbolically, to this election. (It's kind of a Taoist approach too ... Just waiting non-action wise (wu wei) with life :)

Are newspapers of record the coaches or best teAms as News' organizations, in addition to the teams of D & R?

Love, Scott

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

Jane MacLeod

8:17 AM (3 hours ago)

to me

I like the way these numbers are formatted: encouraging. Thanks for sharing.

Ma,

Great formatting, and thanks.

Here are 2 articles from Norwegian and Finnish newspapers of record. It's the first article, when and if states start submitting new or updated vote counts, that makes the distributed-ness of this vote tallying process quite difficult for an ineffectual despot wannanabe to respond to media-wise (via his Fox News' outlier of a paper?). And newspapers of record around the world can continue to report the 264 for Biden and 213 for Trump ... Hmmm .. . This could lead to Biden winning in the people or the publics' minds ...

In this state, Trump must strike back. Nevada announces new numbers soon.

https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/GaGPJ9/direktestudio-alt-om-valget-i-usa

US presidential election |Biden has far more routes to victory than Trump - this is known from the situation in the open states now

Abroad

17:24

https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000007001639.html

Love, Scott

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

9:03 AM (2 hours ago)

to Janie

Am not clear how

Google News

with its algorithms for news for you

https://news.google.com/

Will play into the old sociological category of 'newspaper of record' in most countries but there's probably already a history here one can develop theoretically (I'll keep my eyes open when reading Castells' further :)

Love, Scott

to Janie

Ma,

Now if T man were to concede (in some newspapers of record) because the Republican campaign saw his increasing law suits and battles as very costly and expensive in a number of ways, financially and politically, the whole thing would be over and Biden would win ... Will Trump say 'uncle' (due to whom in the Rep. Party campaign?) ... The count goes on ... :) And newspapers of record continue the daily News' cycles and reporting on political change ...

Love, Scott

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U.S. Senate battlegrounds, 2020 - Ballotpedia

Rrobbmd

Thu, Oct 29, 5:15 PM (7 days ago)

to me

https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._Senate_battlegrounds,_2020

Dear Scott, The only senate seat in MA this time is safe for the Dems.

Sent from my iPhone

Dear Dick,

Thanks so much for your email reply. In reading your "Out of Africa" chapter in "Brookline Thursday Club Essays: 1995-2016" this morning, I laughed when I read on p 58-59: "But on the whole genes are very Republican. They are stable and do not like change. Mutations are rare" ... and regarding our unstable Rep. President? He could conceivably be voted out tomorrow. And could this recent "Biden is steady" article in the Boston Globe - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/31/nation/biding-his-time-waiting-moment-come-him/ - have even been a response to your talk in the Brookline Thursday Club? :) And did these lines get a good laugh when you read your paper in Brookline (which I'm thinking may be Democratic base)?

Am appreciating your genetics' focus in "Brookline Thursday Club Essays" much, as I continue to seek to begin a family :)

Fond regards, Scott

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Robb%20MD :)

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

10:02 AM (1 hour ago)

to Rrobbmd

Dear Dick,

Here are 2 articles from Norwegian and Finnish newspapers of record. It's the first article, when and if states start submitting new or updated vote counts, that makes the distributed-ness of this vote tallying process quite difficult for an ineffectual despot wannabe to respond to media-wise (via his Fox News' outlier of a paper?). And newspapers of record around the world can continue to report the 264 for Biden and 213 for Trump ... Hmmm .. . This could lead to Biden winning in the people or the publics' minds ... And it could inform the senate races for the open senate seats.

"In this state, Trump must strike back. Nevada announces new numbers soon."

https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/GaGPJ9/direktestudio-alt-om-valget-i-usa

"US presidential election |Biden has far more routes to victory than Trump - this is known from the situation in the open states now

Abroad"

https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000007001639.html

Thoughts? And in all of the following newspapers of record, the Democrats are mostly down by one seat currently - D 48 and R 49.

Warm regards,

Scott

More about 'newspapers of record' -

How will they report the unfolding recounts that could decide this election, I wonder?

Here are the 4 newspapers of record in the US, and the electoral college tallies as I send this:

https://www.latimes.com/

B - 264 T - 214

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

B - 253 T - 214

https://www.nytimes.com/

B - 253 T - 214

https://www.wsj.com/

B - 264 T - 214

AND

https://www.bostonglobe.com/

B - 264 T - 214

"Biden leads as battleground states continue to count votes

The presidential contest was still undecided Wednesday night, even after Joe Biden won Michigan and Wisconsin. Races in Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia were close, and the Trump campaign prepared legal challenges."

- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com

https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1324417783690481664