Description
This digital book was compiled and edited by Captain John Campbell, Kilberry, and his more famous son Archibald.
Published in 1909, the year of Campbell senior’s death, the book is a compendium of old Gaelic airs and song tunes. Not piobaireachd but not the rigid slow march either.
There are 43 tunes each with an historical note and, as one would expect with a Kilberry production, an erudite Introduction viz:
‘The settings are the best that the editors have heard, or in the airs which they have adapted, the best that they could make. Where a song has no second part they have added what they consider an appropriate variation. Otherwise they have only diverged from the air as they have heard it sung when forced to do so by the exigencies of the pipe scale.’
The book, long since out of print, is offered as a service to pipers and at a nominal cost. Please note this is a digital download book set in landscape format for tablet computer.
- After purchase the buyer should click on the purple patched book title and download will begin automatically. (Expires after 30 days.)
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