These
references were taken from The Piobaireachd Society's database:
067 Moladh Mairi McLachlan’s March H 7 13v
H..... The Hannay-MacAuslan Manuscript. NLS Acc.
11600 (formerly Dep. 201). Watermarked date, 1811. The ten tunes have
been assigned numbers 1-10 in the present work.
067 Moladgh Mari
Marys Praise for her gift [or] McLauchlans March D0 14 73
C1...... Items 101-183. Campbell Canntaireachd volume 1. NLS MS 3714.
The tunes are numbered 1-83.
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What is Piobaireachd?
When the Highlands and Islands of Scotland adopted the bagpipe, perhaps some four hundred years ago, they began to develop the instrument and its music to suit their needs and tastes.
What emerged was the instrument we know today as the Great Highland Bagpipe, and a form of music, piobaireachd, which is unique to the instrument. It is a very stylized form of music. There is freedom in the theme or "ground" of the piobaireachd to express joy, sadness, or sometimes in the "gathering" tunes , a peremptory warning or call to arms.
Thereafter the theme is repeated and underlined in a series of variations, which usually progress to the "crunluath" variation, where the piper's fingers give a dazzling technical display of embellishment or gracenotes.
