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It is important to us that you are completely satisfied with your new instrument purchase from We work hard to source the best instruments from around the world from the finest brands. Inspection to ensure it leaves our warehouse looking and playing great with our QC card signed Our team of experienced staff will unbox your instrument and perform a detailed That is why Long & McQuade performs a quality control check for every stringed, brass,Īnd woodwind instrument over $99 ordered online at. The movement is set in an order of dealing with grief: the actual funeral, the anger, the weeping, the fond memories and the acceptance.Ĭulloden's three movements ( Movement III is available separately) may be performed singly, in pairs (I & II, II & III) or as the complete set.īuying a new instrument is an exciting eventĪnd we want to ensure that every instrument we sell comes exactly how the manufacturer intended It represents the 'good' that comes from such an experience, in addition to the good we remember of the departed. The middle section sounds almost hopeful for a reason. The opening line (in 3/4) is underscored by the Latin/Gaelic death chant (in 4/4) which is accompanied by the tubular bells (church bells). In order to compose this particular work, I had to draw not only from their losses, but also my own. 'I Hae Grat for Tho I Kend' is a lamentation for them. So many lives were ruined or changed forever it affected husbands, sons, wives and daughters and a way of life that would never be again. 'Bloody Culloden,' so justly nicknamed, left in its wake a river of destruction and death. Movement II - I Hae Grat for Tho I Kend (I have wept for those I knew) Simple they may be, but pull on your heart strings they will, for they pulled on mine something fierce.

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These melodies sprang onto my score pages decked in full regalia, wearing the plaids of their ancestors. Here, they have been brought back to life in a depth and understanding that they must have had all along. Woven into a movement that sounds like an aerial overview of Scotland, these short 8 and 16 bar tunes/songs originally had no accompaniment or only that of a single drone. They are songs about love, war, whiskey, and women places and people long gone or changed. This movement attempts to capture just that only it is the Scotland of 1745 that you will hear. Scotland - just that one word brings to mind the sounds of bagpipes, fiddles and drums, the rolling green hills and moors the dark, still waters of the lochs kilts and plaidsa kaleidoscope of colourful sounds and pictures. Movement I - Heilan Lochs, Bairns & Heather The hundreds of hours of research alone would have prompted me to compile them into a work of some kind, but after immersing myself in the history, the music and overall 'flavor' of the period, I became extremely fond of these tunes and my desire to see them breathe the air of the 21st century became overwhelming. The melodies were originally for bagpipe, fiddle or voice, and had either no accompaniment or only a drone. To be exact, the goal was to compose one large, flowing, multi-movement work, a symphony for band, using as many as I could of those 8 and 16 bar tunes/songs. Beautifully lyrical lines coupled with the spirit of the dance.Ĭulloden (pronounced cuh-LAH-dn) is an attempt to present the folk & Gaelic 'commoners' music from the 1745-6 period of Scotland in my own way, without losing its original charm and flavor. Recorders, Classroom & Plastic InstrumentsĪ Scottish experience.Signal Processors, Converters & Preamps.

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