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chained_bear commented on the word ceòl beag
"Pipe music is divided into two sorts: piobaireachd (pron: 'peeper-uchk') or ceòl mór (pron: 'kyol-more', literally the 'big music'), often described as the classical music of the pipe, and ceòl beg (pron: 'kyol-bek', or the 'little music') comprising marches, strathspeys, reels, slow airs, jigs and hornpipes. This latter category, especially nowadays, is a complete misnomer—at least as regards technical difficulty."
—William Donaldson, Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), 27
July 27, 2008