25 Facts About Pibroch

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Pibroch, or is an art music genre associated primarily with the Scottish Highlands that is characterised by extended compositions with a melodic theme and elaborate formal variations.

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2.

Pibroch is a spelling variant first attested in Lowland Scots in 1719.

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3.

Pibroch is properly expressed by minute and often subtle variations in note duration and tempo.

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4.

Pibroch is difficult to document accurately using traditional musical notation, and early attempts suffered from conventions which do not accurately convey tune expression.

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5.

Pibroch that is considered to be one of the oldest in the repertoire appears in the with the title "" which translates as "Lament for the Tree of Strings", a possible poetic reference to the wire-strung harp.

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Pibroch describes this as "double notes, chords etc" for the left treble hand and right bass hand.

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7.

Pibroch continued to be played by bagpipers, but with diminished patronage and status, and was perceived to have gone into a decline.

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Pibroch specified regular time signatures that standardised and regulated a music that was traditionally performed with expressive rubato rhythmic interpretation of the musical phrasing and dynamics.

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9.

Pibroch has revived and recorded lesser known pibroch such as "Hioemtra Haentra" and "Hihorodo Hiharara" from the Campbell MS that have not been publicly performed for hundreds of years and plays them on replica early bagpipes from the period.

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10.

Pibroch has made his analysis of pibroch canntaireachd, ornamentation and performance techniques available as an online resource with recorded audio demonstrations.

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11.

Pibroch has researched and recorded pibroch and chanted canntaireachd on the recent album Dastirum that restores and interprets repertoire that was "tidied up" and edited out by Angus MacKay and subsequent PS editors.

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12.

Pibroch has extemporised pibroch variations to the early Scottish song " " reviving a lost compositional practice described in early accounts.

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13.

Pibroch's recordings include collaborations with musicians outside the piping fraternity who are researching and playing and related musical traditions on other instruments, notably acclaimed pibroch fiddler Bonnie Rideout, Gaelic singer Margaret Stewart and wire-strung Gaelic harp player Javier Sainz.

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14.

Alt-Pibroch website has recently been founded to support the revival of historically informed pibroch performance through the sharing of scholarship and practice based research.

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15.

Pibroch's recordings have included arrangements of three Bagpipe Pibroch performed on wire harp, released in 1985.

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16.

Pibroch has recorded transcribed pibroch together with revived Breton harp repertoire such as medieval bardic lays.

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17.

Pibroch performed pibroch on wire-strung clarsach and music from the Robert ap Huw ms on bray harp at the National Piping Centre's 2013 concert.

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18.

Pibroch later recorded The Battle of the Bridge of Perth in a 2019 released solo CD.

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19.

Pibroch has recorded a dedicated album of pibroch attributed to the composer Raghnall Mac Ailein Oig performed on the wire harp, released in 2013.

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20.

Pibroch has made a body of live performances of pibroch and early Irish on the wire harp available online on video via YouTube.

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21.

Pibroch has recorded pibroch transcribed to the wire harp alongside revived Irish harp repertoire and original compositions, performed on a replica of the Trinity College clairseach harp with brass, silver and gold strings, released in 2014.

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Pibroch has made live performances of pibroch and early Irish music on the wire harp available online on video via YouTube.

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23.

Pibroch argues that instrumental early music was originally played on the highly resonant wire-strung harp using similar sharpened nail-based string striking and dampening techniques and ornamentation employed in Irish and Scottish harp music.

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24.

Pibroch has recorded "", one of the oldest compositions in the repertoire on a replica early Irish wire-strung clairseach harp.

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25.

Pibroch has performed an arrangement of this medley with an ensemble of Irish musicians on modern instruments for the BBC documentary The Highland Sessions.

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