017: A Christmas Episode - Timothy Cummings

Tim Cummings is a composer, arranger, and performer of music. He's written many excellent bagpipe tunes and arranged many more. In this episode we talk about a few of the holiday tunes that he's arranged in his collection, "On This Day Earth Shall Ring," (link below,) as well as musical modalities, alternative tunings, and many more things!

As a special treat: Tim shares several recordings of his performances of the tunes in-question with other excellent musicians, (additional links below).

Tune in to this episode to hear Tim say, "...I can always pick the people who've been at least bored during a sermon..."

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For this episode, as for the past few, we've been talking about Christmas / Holiday tunes playable on pipes - their origins, fun facts, etc. We have been be leaning heavily on arrangements by Timothy Cummings, which are available as single-sheet downloads and in a beautifully printed collection at birchenmusic.com

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Some featured tunes from this episode, as performed by Timothy Cummings and friends:

A solis ortus cardine: https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=74

The Christ-Child's Lullaby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKduwz8JoXk&feature=youtu.be&t=1364

Comfort, comfort, ye my people: https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk?t=1922

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Some other favorites of mine that Tim has done:

5/4 Waltzes with Jeremiah McLane https://soundcloud.com/birchen-music/jeremiah-mclane-timothy-cummings-54-waltzes-from-the-wind-among-the-reeds

Man of Constant Sorrow/British Field March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1eIYHM_vw

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