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The Rising Sun Collection Published & The YouTube Gallery Addon Added to Website

The Rising Sun Collection by Campbell Naismith is proudly presented by Vortex Street Music.

The book is a collection of  quotes from the Martial and Pastoral Music of the Clans as described by Joseph MacDonald in the 1760's and commentary by Campbell Naismith. Additionally, the book contains twenty four original Pibrochs by Campbell Naismith that reflect these thoughts and values.

The collection is available to purchase for $60.00 USD.

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Joseph MacDonald’s Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe Transcribed into a Digital Medium

Vortex Street Music is proud to announce the debut of Joseph MacDonald's A Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe transcribed into a modern layout with both the text and music typeset reworked electronically into a more accessible format.

Joseph MacDonald created a collection of piobaireachd and of Gaelic airs at the age of twenty-three which would eventually be published posthumously with the Gaelic Airs in 1784 and the Theory in 1803. This work includes some of the earliest analysis of the structure of bagpipe musical tradition that anyone had ever attempted. For further information and to read the work itself please click on the this link to download the .pdf of the collection.

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The Fractal World Collection Published

Vortex Street Music is happy to announce the publishing of Campbell Naismith's fifth book of original compositions, The Fractal World Collection,  along with compositions by Jamie Hamilton.

Additionally, we are pleased to announce the publishing of two piobaireachd for the first time in any of the currently published books and look forward to composing more pieces in this genre. In addition, there are tunes arranged for pipes from Highland vocal airs collected in the early 1700's by Joseph MacDonald.