Pibroch on Scottish Small Pipes ~ 'Piobaireachding the Blues'
Piping with the Allman Bros. in 1973 with Jerry Garcia in Cow Palace
Hi Ian,
Am singing inside the high highest praises of John Burgess's Desperate Battle of the Birds here - https://youtu.be/Mmxp3btwXzs - for its ...
nonmensural Urlar
mensural variations
crisp-est-in doublings and crunluath (as in Shakey's St. Crispin :)
The soaring down from a lengthened High A in the 1st variation and its doubling
And are those mirrors per your Piobaireachd Guidelines in the first variation and its doublings - ie High A down to C twice, High down to B twice? (I guess not now as I read your Guidelines for ... below)
For the timey-being here, I'd like to 'take my' Desperate Battle of the Birds (ie learn it) from this recording in part, and in conversation with you!
(It ain't perfect with the score I'm using, and since I started it with this Piobaireachd Society Vol. 7muscial score , but expressively, it's got a lot a lot of what I'm seeking to learn, Scottish Piobaireachd classical extraordinarily beautiful = wise:) ... and I have a ways to go with my interpretation and on the Scottish Small Pipes too :)
John Burgess
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
Thank you! And looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Cheers,
Scott
Ian Whitelaw's Guidelines for Inte
1. Establish a beat (nonmensurally)! The 1st is strong, the 4th is the strongest. (For Piobairreachds in ¾, the third note is the strongest beat).
2. Show contrast between the long and short notes, emphasizing the long notes and really shortening (de-emphasizing) the short notes.
3. Watch for mirrors? - where the same theme is played on different notes. (Call and answer).
4. If you're already on a note before a cadence, give the following note, after the grace note, the time, to link phrases together.
5. When playing a 'he heran' (canntaireachd for ...) always hold the E.
6. If the note has embellishments, accent it! Hold it.
7. Give space longer to a note before and after the cadence, and before and after a double echo.
8. Always hold the A after a birl.
9. Two notes are never the same, and usually the 2nd note is longer than the first.
10. If the note has a doubling on it, you always hold it.
11. When a cut note is the first beat in the bar, make the first note of bar absolutely on the beat.
12. In a Braebach (Piobaireachd) tune, in a crunluath singling, count to 3 before playing the crunluath, and make the following two notes even.
13. In a Braebach doubling, count to two before playing the crunluath movement.
14. In the taorluath movement, play the melody notes in this order: long, longer, longest. Make each note a different length, and make the third the longest!
Piobairreachd
Structures:
Primary
a a b
a b b
a b
Secondary
a b c d
b c
Tertiary
Regular
Irregular
Types of Piobaireachd
Braebach tune
Strong, sing song rhythmic beat
Fosgailte tune
Instead of Taorluath, play GDF for crunluath
Play the theme note followed by short note followed by eedree
Also, in fosgailte, never play the crunluath a mach (open)
Standard
John Burgess
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
(and I've understood that this piece is called only "The Desperate Battle" - so am glad to see it called here "The Desperate Battle of the Birds" re the ambiguity of musicological traditions, and re ethnomusicology).
Kenny MacLean
The Desperate Battle- Piobaireachd
(have blogged about this one before - and he won the Gold at Oban in around 1974 :)
Donald MacLeod
The Desperate Battle Of The Birds
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Hi Ian,
Looking forward to seeing you in about 8 minutes here - meet.google.com/qig-yecr-ony ...
Just recorded the whole Piobaireachd piece, "The Desperate Battle of the Birds," - and having listened to it (it's a 12:46 minute recording made in the Audacity App or program) - I'm ok with (I like it well enough) the piece's Urlar or Ground (the first movement with motif), and the first variations (as a I make way forward with Piobaireachd) ... but as I recall while playing, the penultimate ...
Taorluath variation
Taorluath a Mach variation
Crunluath variation
Crunluath a Mach variation
- particularly these 'a Mach' variations, I don't quite have them 'down' yet ... and we worked on these 2 weeks ago (and I have a good video recording to learn from too).
I'll wait to hear what you say in the lesson too!
It's really good to make a recording for learning's sake (at this stage for me) ... because one or I hear(s) the music in very different ways - from the 'outside' rather than the "inside" ... making it possible to learn a piece in new ways... :)
May play these movements a bit further before the lesson too!
Great to be playing a fair amount, thanks in part the setting of the goal of recording (to chart development - and regarding: "Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument" - http://scottmacleod.com/
Cheers,
Scott
Urlar
Var 1
Var 1 doubling
Var 2
Var 2 doubling
Var 3
Var 3 doubling
Taorluath variation
Taorluath a Mach variation
Crunluath variation
Crunluath a Mach variation
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Ian,
Thanks again for the lesson yesterday, and glad your move went well ..
Aon the A chanter on Scottish Small Pipes and noodling around with https://youtu.be/
At about 2:55 a new tune, Bo Diddley / Mountain Jam, begins with this Allman Bros from '73 ... same notes work with adding a few others
I have my other two fairly new chanters nearby - in D mixolydian, and B flat mixolydian ... but haven't found a way in yet with them ...
Haven't found a way in yet either to add a Blues' rhythm and sound with a Piobaireachd for some "Pibroching the Blues" innovations (not yet re Gunhild Carling either https://youtu.be/W780LSQHbYY :)
Cheers,
Scott
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Ian,
About 3:21 with https://youtu.be/
Scott
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Nontheist Friends / Agnostic Quakers? ~ Rekindling Idaho-SF Bay Area connection
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Hi Steve,
Long time since we talked about Harbin Hot Springs, Quakers' there - eg Bill and Barbara Christwitz - and my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic Project. How are you?
Am a little involved with non-theist Friends' / agnostic Quakers' online only. You?
I hope this finds you well.
Scott
ScottMacLeod.com
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Good memory, Scott. Yes we spoke with you during our visit to Harbin Hot Springs, but did not meet. We are still in north Idaho with several Quaker meetings from here to Missoula on zoom, and AHA American Humanist association and more. Exhausted from our own projects locally, but the pandemic seems to be winding down in local statistics. Checked into NTF and see only your writings for some time back. What has happened to the overflowing discussion that was going on in past years? Glad you are still active with the World University effort, but distressed to see the NTF talk so vacant now.
I saw the news that Harbin Hot Springs burned badly one or even 2 times since we were there. We have not been back after finding their dog policy very tough to work with, but we continued to visit Borrego Springs in Anza Borrego Desert State park. But not this year, virus travel is difficult and we have much work to do here.
Steve Willey
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Just up at the closed UU Church in Kensington (Berkeley) on a somewhat frequent evening walk - beautiful view of the Golden Gate Bridge's two spires' presently with brilliant orange sunset in background and deep blue SF Bay in foreground. Appreciating the UU Church culturally while it's closed somehow (having never been inside) and while living even in a 'safe house' possibly temporarily in a city just north of Berkeley.
Have emailed the NtF Google Group list a number of times this past week...
World Univ & Sch is growing ... Partnering now with edX (from MIT OCW) ... And its wiki is developing as well in Wikipedia's 300 languages, and planning all living languages so 7117 each a wiki school for open teaching and learning
Haven't yet created a realistic virtual Harbin for soaking from home yet but gave my fifth UC Berkeley Anthro talk in December 2020, which video recording and more are here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
Glad you're both finding community online in a number of ways. Thanks ![😊]()
for getting in touch.
Scott
Just published 5th Harbin book, - and for other information, see: https://amazon.com/author/
... All in the new Academic Press at WUaS
And first Scottish Small Pipes' album too -
Are you on Twitter or LinkedIn ?
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Hi Steve,
Just heard your message which comes through to my Google Voice messages only on my laptop, and received your email reply on my smartphone while walking. Thanks again for your call, and email. Do you happen to know Ed and Barbara Christwitz formerly of Berkeley, now in Lake County?
Found these websites for you and your solar project ... When is this photo from -
https://www.sandpointonline.
but not - willey.com - only as an email domain.
Friendly regards, Scott
https://scott-macleod.
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No, not knowing Ed and Barbara Christwitz.
Oh yes indeed, had forgotten that. Susan Drinkard was a local publications author and reviewed our solar business way back in 2003, that was just before we retired. The business still goes on mostly all new people there.
Yup, I was born on Long Island but also spent high school years in Connecticut and Boston. Followed my parents to California for a time but escaped to Idaho where we bought 20 acres for $4500 and started the business. Much better life in rural areas off the beaten path. But time keeps moving on and here we ll are watching ourselves aging. Life Goes On! (for a while).
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But Scott, you have not explained where went the NTF discussions? I had
not had time to read it for years and now it seems gone. That is all I
wrote to ask you.
Steve Willey
not had time to read it for years and now it seems gone. That is all I
wrote to ask you.
Steve Willey
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Hi Steve,.
I don't really know why the NtF conversation has diminished and moved too a bit to the British Isles with its Non-theist Friends' Network. An opportunity to generate NtF talk further by sending emails?
Found some further images of you I think ...
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OK. Thanks for all the research.
Steve Willey
Steve Willey
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Thanks as well, Steve,
Scott
NtF blog label -
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