A Harp Pibroch for Fiddle Club

I was doing a little reading about old Gaelic harping, when I came across this.

It's a tentative reconstruction of a Ceòl mòr tune (normally a pipe tradition), as it might have been heard on the harp in the first half of the 18th century. The tune is An Tarbh Breac Dearg (The Red Speckled Bull).

Here's a way to break the variations down, at least to my ear.



0:00-1:08 Ground (urlàr) variation
1:09-1:48 Ground doubling
1:47-3:03 "Double-traveling" (A' chiad shiubhal) singling & doubling
3:04-4:27 "Half-falling" (leth-leadagh) variation, singling & doubling
4:28-5:34 "Open crowning quick" (crunluth fosgailte) variation, singling & doubling
5:34-6:42 Ground, reprised

I hope you enjoy it.

UPDATE: And here's an article about the tune. Maybe it'll become the subject for a forthcoming Piper's Corner article...