Hallo Jake,
I am Asturian, and as a well-informed musician, I do not
believe in celtism and its strange equation bagpipes=Celtic. (And Dublin
seems even farther than Madrid).
Anyway, the Casto Sampedro songbook
is a great source with more than 160 bagpipe tunes (#318 is a powerful
muiñeira and #424 a curious processional march that includes Eb). Not so
many in the Martínez Torner Asturian collection, but some are terrific (#131
and #335 are among my favourite ones). In Kurt Schindler's songbook you have
a dense concentrate of traditional ornamentation in tune #4. As for the
Mallorcan xeremiers' repertoire (Samper and Massot songbooks) it follows also
a C# major tonality on a C# drone so it is easy to transpose to C major. The
four sections of the Sant Salvador's dance in Massot's collection are very
interesting for stage.
I had had some problems to get the Martínez
Torner - Bal Gay Galician songbook so Ivan's link is a great
discovery.
BTW, do you play Italian bagpipes?
A little off-topic,
sorry,
Wenceslao Martínez Calonge
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