Monday, July 09, 2012

Words and music …

… A story of notes - FT.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



The poetic force of the writing is not the appropriated work of a hitherto undiscovered piper from the past but that of a novelist of some distinction – one attempting to recreate, no less, the inimical sound of bagpipe music, and the shape of Ceol Mor, in words.
Sounds risky, given that a principal characteristic of bagpipes is the drone.

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