Meaning of pibroch | Babel Free

Definitions

A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.

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Examples

“Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.”

“He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]”

“Halfway through The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd, a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it.”

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