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Byrd's Drone Bass
fundamental bass. Bull's " Juell " is a more developed
specimen of the influence of the drone or burden. The
reader will best be able to judge of the part played
by the bagpipe in the matter of modern harmony by
Byrd's arrangement of " The Woods so Wild," which
I here reproduce from Dr. Naylor's Elizabethan Virginal
Book: —
THE WOODS SO WILD.
(showing Drone Bass)
WILLIAM BYRD.
circa 1596.
About the year 1700, John Ravenscroft, a wait of
the Tower Hamlets, composed several popular hornpipes
— all in triple tune, as was then customary.
A few years later Thomas Marsden collected TT nc . Ire
j , i- , , / * . r- Hornpipes
and published (1705) the first attempt at a
volume of Lancashire hornpipes, and this was followed,
in 1726, by albums of country dances, in which settings
for the bagpipe 1 were given.
1 Daniel Wright, in 1726, published a collection of "bagpipe-
hornpipes."
Ill I

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Story of the bagpipe
DescriptionWith illustrations, a bibliography, and a reprint of O'Farrell's Treatise on the Irish bagpipes, published in 1801.
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Inglis Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject.
Special collections of printed music
DescriptionThe Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.