G.S. McLennan wrote tunes nobody else could have written because he could do things with his hands nobody else could do. From piobaireachd cadences dropped into a 3/4 march to piobaireachd embellishments in jig time, my tunes skew hard because my hands set the ceiling.
You do not get to mess with the gracenotes. In tunes like Inveran, the strange gracenotes are not typos, they are the tune. Play the setting as written, because that is how G.S. wrote it.
The genius is in the surprise. A tune with zero low Gs that sounds happy, a fourth part built like dripping water, an ending line that flies past Jupiter and comes home: study where my tunes break the pattern and you will understand great composing.
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The Greatest Tunes of the Piping Genius G.S. McLennan
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