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REFERENCES  (updated 25 July 2001)

 

Letters From a Gentlemen in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London

By Burt

Published: 1815 (my copy), Written 1726

 

A Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe

By Joseph MacDonald

Published: 1803, Written 1760

 

The Piobaireachd as MacCrimmon Played It

By J McLennan

Published: unknown

 

A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Pipe Music

By Angus MacKay

Published: 1838

 

Scotland Before 1700

By H. Brown

Published: 1893

 

The Highland Bagpipe: Its history. Literature, and Music

By W. L. Manson

Published: 1901

 

The Martial Music of the Clans

By Fionn

Published: 1904

 

The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlanders

By Frank Adams

Published: 1907

 

The Story of the Bagpipe

By Wm. H. Flood

Published: 1911

 

English and Gaelic words for Marches, Strathspeys and Reels

By Andrew MacKintosh

Published: 1913

 

Pipers and Pipe Music in a Highland Regiment

By Major I.H. MacKay Scobie

Published: 1924

 

Some Piobaireachd Studies

By G F Ross

Published: 1926

 

A Collection of MacCrimmon and Other Piobaireachd

By G F Ross

Published: 1929

 

The Piper in Peace and War

By C. A. Malcolm

Published: 1927

 

The MacCrimmons of Skye

By Fred T. MacLoad

Published: 1933

 

The Kilberry Book of Ceol Meadhonach

By John Campbell and Archibald Campbell

Published: @1940

 

The Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor

By Archibald Campbell

Published: 1948

 

Bagpipes

By Anthony Baines

Published: 1960

 

Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String

By George S. Emmerson

Published: 1971

 

The Bagpipe, Fiddle and Harp

By F. Collinson

Published: 1983

 

The Pipers Day

By the Queens own Highlanders

Published: 1991

 

Tunes of Glory

By W. L. Manson

Published: 1992

 

The Highland Bagpipe and Its Music

By Roderic D. Cannon

Published: 1995

 

The Gathering of the Clans: A Survey and Analysis of the Gathering Piobaireachdan of the Scottish Highland Clans

Thesis by Travis L. Ritch

Published: 1995

 

Piobaireachd and Its Interpretation

By Seumas MacNeill and Frank Richardson

Published: 1996

 

The Bagpipe in History and Legend

By Robert M. Lawrance

Published: 1997

 

A Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World

By Michael Newton

Published: 2000

 

The Book of the Bagpipe

By Hugh Cheape

Published:2000

 

Bagpipe Articles Written in the Early 1900’s

Reprinted by Scotpress

 

Text of an address by Seumas MacNeill

Given at the Glasgow Highland Club on April 11, 1994.