College of Piping Piobaireachd Tutor Book & CD

 

The College of Piping Tutor Volume 4 is an easy-to-follow book for the beginning Piobaireachd student. The text contains guidance on movements, reading and expression, and the companion CD offers an essential point of reference.  The book contains four tunes: The Company's Lament, MacIntosh's Banner, Glengarry's Lament and Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry.

 

From Seamus MacNeill's Introduction to the 1990 Editon: "Welcome to what must be one of the world's most rewarding clubs--that of the Piobaireachd player.  Rewarding, not in the financial sense, but aesthetically, spiritually, culturally, and all the other big words which mean it's fun and satisfying at the same time. Piobaireachd is the classical music of the Highland bagpipe.  The word simply means 'piping,' beacuase at one time this was the only music played on this bagpipe..."