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Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community
of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the
various different repertories. It also discusses piping techniques
as well as information on some of the great piping dynasties and
individual pipers. Dr Willie Donaldson shows how 'traditional
music', often assumed to be the anonymous product of a dim and
distant past, is the creation of gifted individuals operating in a
sophisticated and vigorously ongoing enterprise. Since pipers have
often been skilled also on the fiddle, keyboards and small-pipes,
or as singers or dancers, their story offers fascinating insights
into the whole traditional music and song repertoire of Scotland.
Pipers is a well-informed and highly readable account by a
prize-winning author who is a piper and composer of pipe music as
well as an internationally recognised historian of Scottish
tradition.
The Highland bagpipe has long been a central strand of Scottish
identity, but what happened to the Highland bagpipe in the two
centuries following Culloden? How was its music transmitted and
received? This study presents contemporary evidence and uses a
range of methods to recreate the changing world of the pipers as
they influenced and were influenced by the transformation in
Scottish society. This book is intended for pipers exploring the
achievements and musical concerns of their predecessors; for the
general reader interested in a music whose history is akin to that
of Scotland's poetry and song; and for all students of the process
of tradition.Combining newspaper and manuscript evidence from the
pipers themselves with a wide range of historical sources, the
author harnesses the insights of the practical player to those of
the historian and provides a fresh account of the players and their
musical traditions, which have previously been the subject of much
myth-making. This is the first history of the musical culture of
the worldwide piping community.
Death is inevitable, and yet the vast majority of the developed
world seems to want to ignore this fact and avoid the sad
inevitability. However, death is an inevitability, and trying to
avoid talking about it is a mistake. Estimated Time of Departure
takes readers on a journey of one man and his family having these
discussions and how powerfully loving and revealing they were. In
this funny, moving, poignant memoir, William Donaldson tells the
story of how he talked with his parents over an extended period
about their end-of-life thoughts and philosophy. He shares the sad,
funny, maddening, sweet, and rewarding sides of this journey and
makes a compelling and impassioned plea to readers to not miss this
opportunity. They were not without sadness and challenges, but by
virtue of talking and exploring the topic, the family came closer
together and the inevitable passing became, while still sad, a
cathartic, deeply rewarding event. Estimated Time of Departure was
written to give readers the courage to have these discussions and
shows that hope, love, and reverence can be seen by having them.
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A Complete Greek Grammar
John William Donaldson
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John William Donaldson
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Varronianus (Paperback)
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