The Story of the Bagpipe: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Story of the Bagpipe, credited to William Grattan Flood, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Story of the Bagpipe by William Grattan Flood. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Most people think of the bagpipe as an instrument solely connected to Scotland. W.H. Grattan Flood takes us much further back, to the ancient origin of the pipe. From the simple reed blown by the mouth, through Egypt, Greece, and Rome, past the Tudors and Stuarts, right up to the French court of Louis the XIV and into the Nineteenth century, we see how the bagpipes have been an integral part of our musical history. This is Volume 13 in a series of 15 books. (Summary by Jessie Percival)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Story of the Bagpipe
• Author credits: William Grattan Flood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Combined MP3 track duration: 4:54:34

Catalogue topics

• history
• non-fiction
• scotland
• music
• england
• Wales
• Ireland
• tudors

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Preface — 3:53
2. 01 - Origin of the Bagpipe — 6:20
3. 02 - Bagpipes of Antiquity — 7:53
4. 03 - Greek and Roman Bagpipes — 6:03
5. 04 - Ancient Irish Bagpipes — 12:23
6. 05 - Ancient Welsh Pipes — 7:31
7. 06 - Early English Bagpipes — 11:38
8. 07 - The Bagpipe in Scotland — 9:25
9. 08 - Ancient Scotch Pipe-Melodies — 15:49
10. 09 - The Scotch Bagpipe in the Sixteenth Century — 10:02
11. 10 - Continental Pipes — 11:13
12. 11 - The English Bagpipe Under the Tudors — 12:00
13. 12 - Irish Pipes in the Sixteenth Century — 13:54
14. 13 - English Bagpipes Under the Stuarts — 9:46
15. 14 - Influence of the Bagpipe on Seventeenth Century Music — 9:49
16. 15 - Irish Bagpipes in the Seventeenth Century — 10:07
17. 16 - The Bagpipe in France Under Louis XIV — 11:17
18. 17 - The Great Highland Pipe — 15:08
19. 18 - Scotch Jacobite Period — 14:15
20. 19 - The Irish Uilleann (Union) Pipes — 18:12
21. 20 - The Highland Society of London — 13:22
22. 21 - Scotch Regimental Pipers — 13:32
23. 22 - Lowland and Northumbrian Pipes — 8:37
24. 23 - The Bagpipe in the Orchestra — 9:23

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