Pipe Music Library
This will forever be a project in progress.
The aim is to create a jpeg/png/pdf library of pipe music composed by me (there have
been several issues regarding copyright with pipe music on the web - this is
safe) for interested people to print and use. Many of the tunes are all prepared
using 'Pipewriter' - a specialised pipe-music publishing program on which I had the
pleasure to work with programmer Alan Corrie. Other tunes were typeset using Finale, a general music typesetting program. In total there are just over 300 tunes for you to browse through and choose from. Each image is the size of an A4 page for printing so that you
merely have to right click on the image (windows users) and select 'copy image'
then paste into your favourite editing programme and print from there.
Alternatively you can save directly from some browsers (also via right clicking).
Users are hereby given permission to perform or record the music, but are
politely asked to credit authorship accurately. The Clan Davidson Collection A collection of about
70 tunes composed in 2009 for the Homecoming Year celebrations in
Scotland. Each tune commemorates either a person or event in the
history of the Clan. "The
Ardgowan Collection" A collection of music written for the Baron
of Ardgowan to honour his forbears and mark various moments of his family's
history. Approximately 100 tunes. The Kerr Collection
A
collection of music written as a gift for Michael Kerr of Chicago on the occasion
of his retirement. The titles tell the story of his Grandparents' work at the first half of the 20th century in Oklahoma.
The Morpeth Set Northumbrian
Bagpipes...for now there are only a few tunes here and so there is only
a single page. However, it may be that in time more will be
composed...Comments and suggestions from Northumbrian are particularly welcome.
In
1997 and 1998 I had two piping trips to Australia, full of interesting
and colourful adventures. On the plane back from the first trip I
decided to write tunes to remember it by. Unfortunately, some of the
tunes have temporarily gone missing due to software issues (read ....
microsoft). However, I have found some of them and the collection is reappearing.
Many
years ago a number of people gave me their collections of books with
the specific request that I use them and make the contents somehow
available to other people, either directly or indirectly. This was
before the advent of the significant internet and the matter has waited
a number of years and growth of competence to bring this material to
the public domain.
Indeed public domain is key here. There is no
intention to violate any copyright in this act of sharing - only the intention to
bring valuable archive material to a greater public audience. If there
is any violation here that you know about, please tell me so that I can
remove the offending material or petition for the relevant agreements.
As
the intention here is on several levels a decision was taken to scan
the book 'as is', complete with comments and annotations, both as
evidence of the original source and to allow the reader to interpret what
they see for themselves. I believe this complies with best historical
practice today.
For display the images have been set to be viewed
at 900 pixels wide. The original images are bigger and can be viewed at
the original size or downloaded as a jpg.
It will be seen that some of
the embellishments are written in a different form and that some
embellishments may be unknown to pipers today. This is an historical
document and reflects the ways ways of doing things a hundred years ago (in some cxases two hundred years and more ago),
including giving us clues about the way of playing.
The
collection which is to be scanned and made available is quite
substantial and in time may require a completely separate site. It
could take several years to scan everything as there are many thousands
of pages which I believe are largely or completely unavailable in
any way.
Please follow the link above for a separate index to the historical material.
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