pibroch

A series of variations on a martial theme or traditional dirge for the highland bagpipes.

A wild, irregular kind of music, peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, performed upon the bagpipe.

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.

A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.

martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes