S4 E24: Descriptive Pieces The Irish Fox Hunt, Oscar and Malvina, The Desperate Battle and The Stool of Repentance
September 11th, 2020
52 mins 55 secs
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O’Farrell: Oscar and Malvina, Irish Fox Hunt
Piobaireachd: The Desperate Battle
Dixon: The Stool of Repentance
Bremner: Wright’s Rant
Gunn: The Piper’s Son
O’Farrell’s Irish Fox Hunt:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781370
If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend watching this clip of Liam O’Flynn talking about and playing the Fox Chase:
https://youtu.be/EQU84O8xZlE
O’Farrell’s Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781238
Angus MacKay’s Manuscript for The Desperate Battle of the Birds, This isn’t really the version I played, but I learned it then forgot it then played it from Kilberry’s Ceol Mor, but I can’t really link to that.
http://www.ceolsean.net/docs/AM%20titles/Desperate%20Battle%20of%20the%20Birds.pdf
William Dixon’s The Stool of Repentance:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
Bremner’s Setting for Wright’s Rant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003307
Gunn’s Setting for the Piper’s Son:
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2021.pdf
The David Allan Painting is the property of the National Galleries of Scotland, but also appears to have a Creative Commons tag on it. Anyway you can look at a very high resolution of the painting here:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8323/black-stool-stool-repentance
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