This handsome book contains monumental scholarship and meticulous editions that are not available online. A fantastic price is offered for 2 days only, before the stock moves to a new a warehouse.
Special offer price: £6 + post & packing. Offer closes Saturday 30 April 2016.
The MacArthur-MacGregor Manuscript of Piobaireachd (1820) (Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen, 2001)
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I have just ordered 5 copies online for the amazing price of 33 GBP (that’s £120 discount). You have to add the book to your basket at full price and create an account first. Just before you pay, you reach a page where you can enter the promotional code. My first attempt failed - after entering the code, the website returned “Temporary error. Sorry for the inconvenience”. 5 minutes later I tried again, logging in with the account details I’d created on the first attempt. That worked!
There are about 55 copies available at this price. It’s incredibly good value. This book belongs in every pibroch lover’s library, particularly those who want to do it differently. It is lovingly produced and makes it much easier for players to develop an interpretation that stands out from the crowd, one backed up by meticulous research.
The MacArthur-MacGregor Manuscript of Piobaireachd contains thirty compositions for the Highland bagpipe for use on ceremonial occasions, compiled by the pipers Angus MacArthur of Trotternish in Skye and John MacGregor of Fortingall in Perthshire, and overseen by Andrew Robertson of the Highland Society of London. This Piobaireachd Society manuscript (deposited in the National Library of Scotland) is published here for the first time in a volume comprising extensive background material, critical and performing editions of the music, and a facsimile of the original music pages.
FRANS BUISMAN (1942–2002) spent his working life cataloguing oriental books at Amsterdam University and devoted the rest of his time to the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe. ANDREW WRIGHT is one of the world’s foremost performers, teachers and adjudicators of ceòl mór, the classical music of the Highland bagpipe. RODERICK CANNON (1938–2015) was Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia and published extensively on the history of bagpipes and their music.
