Piobaireachd vs Pibroch - What's the difference?
piobaireachd | pibroch | Alternative forms |
A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.
* 1908 , E. G. Murphy, ‘The Doctor's Story’, Australian Ballads & Short Stories , Penguin 2003, p. 279:
*:He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights [...].
*2012 , Hannah Rosefield, ‘Piping Up’, Literary Review , 401:
*:Halfway through The Big Music , Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd , a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it.
