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- Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:27 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Freddy's Bottled Water
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7198
I'd second Stu's comments. What I like about this style is that retains its power at a moderate speed, and has a dramatic sound as well as a melody. This is a hornpipe I'd like to try with the Wee Man from Skye . I always get Simon Fraser PB to play new tunes "in my head" for me, and this one went w...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:02 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: A LIGHTYEAR'S JOURNEY - Jig (revised)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7157
A LIGHTYEAR'S JOURNEY - Jig (revised)
A jig.
-David.
-David.
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:40 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Drum Major I.B Sorenson
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11313
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:10 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: The wrong person (jig)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6048
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:00 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: EXHAUST PIPES - Hornpipe
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9818
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:48 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: GENESIS SUITE - Plainsong & Antiphon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8020
GENESIS SUITE - Plainsong & Antiphon
An experimental suite - not yet finished! The most well-known form of Plainsong is the Gregorian Chant (MacGregorian chant?). I hope I have done this beautiful form of music justice here. The return to the E in each bar is deliberate. This Plainsong will be played by a solo piper, with the band comi...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:22 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: The Silver Glens (Suite)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5860
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:13 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: EXHAUST PIPES - Hornpipe
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9818
EXHAUST PIPES - Hornpipe
A new hornpipe--in the modern tradition. Might play around more with the gracing. It is intentionally simple, and repetitious. But maybe it doesn't work for everybody, which is ok. Not super fast, but not slow or draggy. Listen to it first, as it doesn't come into its own without drones. I'd say kic...
- Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:22 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: New Tune - The Strange Police
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7614
- Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:38 am
- Forum: Piping Picture Post
- Topic: Season's Greetings
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4734
Season's Greetings
All the Best to Everyone Out There!
David Siegel
The Israel Pipes & Drums
David Siegel
The Israel Pipes & Drums
- Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:06 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Camano Island in the Sea - A slow air for Bob Dunsire
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8761
Camano Island in the Sea - A slow air for Bob Dunsire
Probably most of you know that Bob Dunsire, who created and maintained the Dunsire Bagpipe Web with the famous forums, passed away recently after a several year battle with cancer. He was only in his early 50s. I have lost both of my sisters also to virulent cancer, and at young ages, in the last fe...
- Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:47 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: High Street Golem - A 9/8 Jig
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8397
Thanks, Elias. Music is for playing and enjoying. There's more at my website
http://www.geocities.com/israelpiper/index.html
I love that 9/8 time signature, but it is hard to compose a really original-sounding tune in it.
Thanks again,
-David.
http://www.geocities.com/israelpiper/index.html
I love that 9/8 time signature, but it is hard to compose a really original-sounding tune in it.
Thanks again,
-David.
- Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:31 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: High Street Golem - A 9/8 Jig
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8397
High Street Golem - A 9/8 Jig
a 9/8 jig. Goes "interestingly" with THE BORGO PASS (music available on this site). It is, in part, a 9/8 relative of BORGO.
Simple and rhythmical.
-David.
Simple and rhythmical.
-David.
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:43 am
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: Sounds Like The Star Spangled Banner
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20227
That B to a held E in the several places, eg the end of the first line, jars me a little. Otherwise, it does move well enough. I'd think about making a medley of whatever patriotic tunes nearly all Americans might know, and working it into that. In a medley, the caricature effect wouldn't be a facto...
- Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:06 pm
- Forum: Compositions
- Topic: The Rocky Balalaika
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11534
Any 5/8 dance tradition? This is a big area of ignorance for me. I could swear that some jigs I have heard on uilleann pipes--written in 6/8--are closer to 5/8. Be tough for a lot of Highland pipers not to dot that first 8th in the group. Is this time common, or at least not unusual, in the Northumb...