pìobaireachd
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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. Strictly meaning 'piping' in Scottish Gaelic, has for some four centuries been music of the great Highland bagpipe.
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Notation
- Structure
- Titles and subjects
- History
- Harp precedents for pibroch
- Fiddle pibroch
- Emergence of bagpipe pibroch
- Cultural ascendancy of bagpipe pibroch
- Modern bagpipe pibroch (early 19th century – present)
- Bagpipe pibroch survival and revival
- Performance lineages
- Contemporary {{lang|gd|ceòl mór}} revival
- Performance-based pibroch research
- Harp {{lang|gd|ceòl mór}} revival
- Fiddle pibroch revival
- Related musical forms
- Welsh Medieval {{lang|cy|cerdd dant}}
- Irish {{lang|gd|ceòl mór}}
- See also
- References
- External links
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. Strictly meaning 'piping' in Scottish Gaelic, has for some four centuries been music of the great Highland bagpipe.
A more general term is (in reformed spelling, or in old spelling), meaning the 'great music' (to distinguish this complex extended art-music from the more popular Scottish music such as dances, reels, marches, and strathspeys, which are called or 'little music'). This term encompasses music of a similar nature to pibroch, pre-dating the adoption of the Highland pipes, that has historically been played on the wire-strung Gaelic harp () and later on the Scottish fiddle, and this form is undergoing a revival.
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