What does pibroch mean?
Pibroch means A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature..
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/ˈpiːbɹɒk/ · noun
A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature..
Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.
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 […]
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.
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Pibroch means A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature..
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Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.
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