Pipe tunes' uber-long names

[OC Richard]

The Duke Of Roxburgh's Farewell To Blackmount Forest..

Hey that was the M in the MSR of the first band I played in!

Can't remember the S.

The R was The Sheepwife, as I recall.

[Profane James]

Ah nice! It's easily one of my favs. Iain Speirs has a wonderful version on YouTube with Lady Loudon and Bessie McIntyre as the strathspey and reel.

http://youtu.be/ummyfXC3dLY

[KD Burke]

I think incomprehensibility plays an important role as well. Most pipe tune titles are reasonably opaque when it comes to deciphering the tune. For example, I have no idea what the emotional frame of reference for "The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow" would be!

[Blupiper]

Some others:

Captain J. D. K. McCallum's Farewell to the 79th Q. O. C. Highlanders (a march in the Glen book)
The Chief's Sir Fitzroy Donald MacLean Bart. C. B. Welcome to Glasgow (quickstep from the Music of Clan MacLean book)
The Gathering of the MacDonalds of Clanranald to the Battle of Sheriffmuir (piobaireachd)

There is a site out there (www.ceolsean.net) that has digitized copies of a number of old pipe tune collections. It is often fun (for me as a piper) to peruse the titles for tunes that might work out to add to the repertoire and play the 'Pipe tune uber-long name' game. It's a free site and a great resource. Look it up, bring your practice chanter and spend (waste?) an evening.


JMB

[CDNSushi]

Pipers' tunes certainly don't have the corner on the market for long song titles though... Pink Floyd has: Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict.

And the record, I believe, goes to Swedish group Rednex with: The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation

[Tarheel]

Pipers' tunes certainly don't have the corner on the market for long song titles though... Pink Floyd has:

Still have my copy of "Ummagumma".