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Webster 1913 Edition
Pibroch
Pi′broch
,Noun.
[Gael. ]
piobaireachd
pipe music, fr. piobair
a piper, fr. pioba
pipe, bagpipe, from English. See Pipe
, Noun.
A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
Jamieson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pibroch
PI'BROCH
,Noun.
Definition 2024
pibroch
pibroch
English
Alternative forms
Noun
pibroch (plural pibrochs)
- A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.
- 1908, E. G. Murphy, ‘The Doctor's Story’, Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin 2003, p. 279:
- He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights [...].
- 2012, Hannah Rosefield, ‘Piping Up’, Literary Review, 401:
- Halfway through The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd, a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it.
- 1908, E. G. Murphy, ‘The Doctor's Story’, Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin 2003, p. 279: