I really liked the songs in Braveheart, and I got the soundtrack but I can’t seem to find any more good songs.
What’s the difference between a bagpipe and a lawnmower?
Answer: You can tune a lawnmower.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. First of all, the music from "Braveheart" was written by movie soundtrack composer James Horner, who also wrote the soundtrack music for "Titantic", "The Mask of Zorro", and "Avatar"–among others. You might check those out.
For real tradtional Scottish music, you can go here–it’ll link to several different sites where you can listen and download various folk songs:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_index.htm
You can also locate a wide range of Scottish bagpipe music–including modern–here:
http://www.heartoscotland.com/Products/music.htm
Amazon.com also carries some of the same recordings.
And here:
http://www.caber-records.com/music/
http://www.emusic.com/album/Michael-Hamilton-The-Pipes-Are-Calling-Traditional-Bagpipe-Rebel-MP3-Download/11379596.html
There are even modern rock bands (from Scotland and elsewhere) that use bagpipes, but this is the classical section. If anything this kind of falls under "other".
May 5th, 2011 at 2:11 am
What’s the difference between a bagpipe and a lawnmower?
Answer: You can tune a lawnmower.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. First of all, the music from "Braveheart" was written by movie soundtrack composer James Horner, who also wrote the soundtrack music for "Titantic", "The Mask of Zorro", and "Avatar"–among others. You might check those out.
For real tradtional Scottish music, you can go here–it’ll link to several different sites where you can listen and download various folk songs:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_index.htm
You can also locate a wide range of Scottish bagpipe music–including modern–here:
http://www.heartoscotland.com/Products/music.htm
Amazon.com also carries some of the same recordings.
And here:
http://www.caber-records.com/music/
http://www.emusic.com/album/Michael-Hamilton-The-Pipes-Are-Calling-Traditional-Bagpipe-Rebel-MP3-Download/11379596.html
There are even modern rock bands (from Scotland and elsewhere) that use bagpipes, but this is the classical section. If anything this kind of falls under "other".
References :
May 5th, 2011 at 2:25 am
There are plenty of good bagpipe recordings but you might have to go to a Scottish retailer to get them.
A handful of famous tunes:
Scotland the Brave
Bonnie Dundee
Green Hills
The Battle’s O’er
Pikeman’s March
72nds Farewell to Aberdeen
Pipe Major Angus MacDonald
Brown Haired Maiden
Teribus
Cullen Bay
Rpwan Tree
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May 5th, 2011 at 2:39 am
Hey there, just a heads up for ya…
The pipes on the Braveheart soundtrack are actually Irish uilleann (ILL-uhn) pipes! (Uilleann being the Irish word for elbow, with these pipes being played by means of a bellows squeezed with the elbow)
The Great Highland bagpipes, which are the kind everyone thinks of when bagpipes are mentioned, have a range of only nine notes, whereas uilleann pipes have a two octave range, which was probably easier to use with the score. But they DO sound gorgeous, don’t they?
So! You might want to look into some uilleann pipe music instead.
Try Todd Denman and Davy Spillane just to name a couple of uilleann artists.
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Pipes AND Braveheart soundtrack fan!