PIPING EXAMINATION SYLLABUS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following are recommended to College of Piping students for preparation for PDQB (IoP) examinations:

TUTORS AND MUSIC THEORY

The College of Piping Tutor 1 incorporating Tutor 1 CDROM
The College of Piping Tutor 3 incorporating Tutor 3 CD

MAINTENANCE OF THE BAGPIPE CARE OF REEDS, ETC.

The College of Piping Tutor 2 and DVD
                               
PIOBAIREACHD, PHRASING and STRUCTURE  and HISTORY

College of Piping Tutor 4 (Piobaireachd) + Tutor 4CD & Tutor 4a CD
Piobaireachd, by Seumas MacNeill, published by the BBC
Piobaireachd Society Collection Bks. 1-15
Binneas is Boreraig
Proceedings of the Piobaireachd Society
Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor
Sidelights to the Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor
Further Sidelights to the Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor
Music for the Highland Bagpipe and More Music for the Highland Bagpipe, by John MacLellan
Joseph MacDonald Treatise (Ed. R Cannon)
MacArthur MS (Published John MacFadyen Trust)
Donald MacDonald (Vol.1 – Piob. Soc.)
Angus Mackay’s Piob. Collection

Ceol Mor by CS Thomason

Masters of Piobaireachd CD Series
Donald MacLeod CD Series
Andrew Wright –‘Whispers of the Past’ CDs

GENERAL HISTORY AND TRADITIONS

Book of the Bagpipe, by Hugh Cheape
Highland Bagpipe and Its Music by R Cannon
Music of the Scottish Regiments by D Murray
Scotland's Music by J Purser
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 – 1945, John G. Gibson
College of Piping Tutor Part 2
The Highland Bagpipe, by WL Manson
The Bagpipe, by WH Grattan Flood
The Piper in Peace and War, by C.A. Malcolm
The Pipes of War, by Seton and Grant
The Traditional and National Music of Scotland (Collinson)
The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950 (Donaldson)
The Piping Traditions of the North of Scotland by B MacKenzie
Music for Highland Dancing, by John MacLellan
The Piping Traditions of Argyll by Bridget MacKenzie
The Judges Companion, Compiled by Robert Wallace

MAGAZINES

The Piping Times
The Pipe Band Magazine
The Voice