Tag: Birchen Music

Theory Top-Up: harmonies derived from hymns

Theory Top-Up: harmonies derived from hymns

Harmony Writing Part Eight. By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #92, 2018. We have arrived at the eighth and last article on writing harmonies for pipe bands and other pipe ensembles — for the time being, at least.  In the previous seven articles, we explored a progression of approaches to crafting […]

Ukrainian national anthem on bagpipes

Ukrainian national anthem on bagpipes

Right now the world is united in support for Ukraine. There are lots of recordings all over social media of the Ukrainian National Anthem being sung and played in bomb-damaged Ukrainian homes, air-raid shelters, and played by orchestras and sung by crowds of worried people in city squares and in […]