Bagpipes & Highland Dance
Vortex Street Music is the medium for Campbell Naismith and others to publish books and make recordings enriching Scottish arts and culture. Currently, there are seven published books of music and dance, and three recordings (CD and MP3) of bagpipe music available. Vortex Street Music promotes the publishing of composers and research into the Highland bagpipe and Highland dance. To see the list of composers, their tunes, which book they are printed in, and where they may be recorded click here.
FEATURED RESEARCH PROJECT: Joseph MacDonald's Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe Transcribed
Vortex Street Music is proud to announce the debut of Joseph MacDonald's A Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe transcribed into a modern layout with both the text and music typeset reworked electronically into a more accessible format.
Joseph MacDonald created a collection of piobaireachd and of Gaelic airs at the age of twenty-three which would eventually be published posthumously with the Gaelic Airs in 1784 and the Theory in 1803. This work includes some of the earliest analysis of the structure of bagpipe musical tradition that anyone had ever attempted. For further detailed information and to read the work itself please click on the this link to view or download the .pdf of the collection.
The original manuscript that was transcribed from can be found here.
FEATURED PRODUCT: The Fractal World Collection
Vortex Street Music's newest publication by Campbell Naismith, The Fractal World Collection.
