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Joseph MacDonald’s Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe Transcribed into a Digital Medium

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 […]

2023 Margo Naismith Memorial Competition Held

The 2023 Margo Naismith Memorial Competition was held and the Margo Naismith Memorial trophy and C. Stewart Smith trophy were awarded.

Awards and Books Presented at the 2022 San Diego Highland Games

Books and awards were given in both the Highland Dance competition and Bagpipe competition. Specific awards include the San Diego High Games Margo Naismith Memorial Award, the Campbell J. Naismith Pibroch Award, and the James Naismith Memorial Targe.

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Research Project Completion

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 information and to read the work itself please click on the this link to view or download the .pdf of the modern collection by Vortex Street Music.