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torsdag den 1. marts 2012

Scottish music

Dear reader

This blog is going to be about Scotland, more preciselly about scottish literature, music and other artistic aspects of the country. I personally choose the subject because of the possibility to work with scottish music, I just have to admit that I love the bagpipes.

I'm going to show you two examples of the use of bagpipes, one being a traditional and one being a very untraditional use of bagpipes in music.

As seen in this clip, bagpipes are used mostly by the military in its traditional fashion.





In this particular music video the American rock band Korn uses the bagpipes throughout the whole song, the bagpipes have reached far out and touched every corner of music that is one of the reasons why it is so important to know about scottish music.

normally when people talk about music and scotland bag pipes and folk music appears in the conversation. what many people dont know, is that the Bag pipe is not even from scotland! the bagpipe was originally created in in Europe and Asia, the scotts first used it in the 6th century and the traditional higland bagpipe as we know it was first introduced in the 15th century.

Scotland has a rich coulture when it comes to music, especially folk music. The scottish folk music has touched the stages worldwide largely in Europe and the United states. Scottish folk music fancies harp palying a very distinctive form of singing (a mix og scotts and gealic) and of course the highland bagpipes. Various instruments is used examples of these instruments would be bagpipes, harmonika, larger percussion, harp, violin, flute and a wide range of string instruments.

The scottish folk music is often seen and heard in many larger scottish celebrations, often collaborating with stepdancing to add an even bigger traditional layer to the celebrations.

How folk music is used in larger civil gatherings.

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