Pipers - A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe

Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the various different repertories.

About the author

William Donaldson is a Scottish social historian and piper. Two of his earlier books, The Jacobite Song and Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland, received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Thomas Blackwell Memorial Prize.

Summary

Pipers Pipers is a well-informed and highly readable account by a prize-winning author who is a piper and composer of pipe music as well as an internationally recognised historian of Scottish tradition.

Product details

• Authors: William Donaldson, William
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781780276878
• ISBN: 978-1-78027-687-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Folk-Stil, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional