This book seeks to make the Gaelic heritage of piping more accessible to pipers. It is an alphabetical list of the Scots and Irish Gaelic names of tunes in 61 collections of Highland bagpipe music published from 1876 to 1986. It gives a correct spelling and pronunciation of each, an English translation, any other names for the tune, and the collections it appears in. Many are pipe settings of Gaelic songs: the first lines of chorus and first verse are given, for looking up the songs in collections or on Internet. The royal road to good timing and expression in piping is to have had a mother who sang Gaelic songs to you. Next best, you can listen to those songs now, and learn to sing them yourself. Hearing the Gaelic songs in your head as you play the tune on the pipes can bring new insight to tunes that you have been playing for years. 
 The book has a note on the Celtic harp, from which some pipe tunes derive, and a sketch of the Queen Mary Harp (from about 1450, and now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh). 
 In addition to "Ar canain 's ar ceol" [Our language and our music] there is a rich heritage of Celtic art, from jewelry and carved stones and illuminated manuscripts. Knotwork panels and other decorations are shown and discussed (from the Book of Kells, ca. A.D. 800, now in the library of Trinity College Dublin). These wonderful designs are used in pipe music books, on sporrans and other Highland dress, and on silver pipe mountings. They are very much a part of piping tradition.

Gaelic names of pipe tunes: Pronunciations, English translations, the Gaelic songs

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Gaelic names of pipe tunes: Pronunciations, English translations, the Gaelic songs