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Play it Like You Sing It – Volume 1 History, Culture and Images
Publisher: Bradan Press$39.99In Nova Scotia throughout the 19th century, bagpipe music was interwoven with fiddle music, Gaelic singing, and dance traditions. Volume One of The Shears Collection tells the story of the many families and individuals who maintained piping traditions in the Gaelic-speaking communities of the mainland and Cape Breton, through history, culture, and over 100 images of pipers and their instruments in 19th and 20th-century Nova Scotia.
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Play it Like You Sing It – Volume 2 The Music
Publisher: Bradan Press$69.99In Nova Scotia throughout the 19th century, bagpipe music was interwoven with fiddle music, Gaelic singing, and dance traditions. Volume Two of the Shears Collection presents bagpipe arrangements and their Gaelic words as they were played and sung in Nova Scotia. The book contains 230 settings of pipe tunes, 19 fiddle tune settings connected to the piping tradition, numerous port-á-beul lyrics, and 75 images of 19th and 20th-century Nova Scotian pipers.
