Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945 [[electronic resource] /] / John G. Gibson

• Autore: Gibson John G (John Graham), <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Disciplina: 788
• Soggetto topico: Bagpipe - Scotland - Highlands - History; Bagpipe - Nova Scotia - History; Bagpipe music - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-385) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Illustrations""; ""PART ONE: PIPING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: AN UNBROKEN TRADITION""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Roots of Jacobitism and the Disarming Act""; ""3 Policing the Gaelic Highlands after Culloden""; ""4 Postscript on the Disarming Act""; ""PART TWO: MILITARY PIPING, 1746â€?83""; ""5 Military Piping in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries""; ""6 Piping in Four Eighteenth-Century Regiments""; ""7 Highland Pipers in the American Revolutionary War and in India""; ""PART THREE: REPERTOIRE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY PIPERS, c. 1750â€?1820"" ; ""8 Exclusivity of Repertoire: The Evidence Against""""9 The ""Revival"" of Ceòl Mór""; ""10 Ceòl Beag and Dance-Music Piping""; ""11 The Small-Pipe, the Quickstep, and the College""; ""PART FOUR: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW""; ""12 The Turning Point, 1790â€?1850: Innovation and Conservatism in Scotland""; ""13 Influences on Piping in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia: The Middle Class, the Church, and Temperance""; ""14 Transition to Modern Piping in Scotland and Nova Scotia""; ""15 Highland Games and Competition Piping""; ""16 Traditional Pipers in Nova Scotia"" ; ""17 The Survival of Tradition in Nova Scotia""""APPENDICES""; ""1 The Disarming Act, 1746""; ""2 An Act to amend and enforce so much of an Act ... as relates to the more effectual disarming of the Highlands in Scotland, 1748""; ""3 Letter from William Mackenzie, Piper""; ""4 Other Immigrant Ceòl Mór Pipers""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
• Titolo autorizzato: Traditional Gaelic bagpiping, 1745-1945
• ISBN: 1-282-85905-6; 9786612859052; 0-7735-6890-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461499003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II