pibroch

noun

Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).

1. A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.

   “Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.”

   “He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]”