Music for Every Occasion
There is music for every occasion in the Scottish repertoire. Besides your personal wishes, a good piper would only play tunes apropriate for the occasion. That means one should neither hear reels or jigs at a funeral nor Flowers of the Forest at a wedding. ScotlandItaly offers a playlist of well over 200 tunes, but to ease your choice we selected the following top-tens for the most recurring occasions:
Weddings
- Our Wedding Day
Highland Wedding
Mairi's Wedding
Highland Lassie
I Love a Lassie
An Eriskay Love Lilt
My Love is but a Lassie Yet
The Bride's Jig
The Clumsy Lover
My Faithful Dear One
Cermonies
- Flower of Scotland
Scotland the Brave
Scottish Soldier
The Black Bear
Hielan' Laddie
Caberfiedh
The Victory Polkas
The Battle of Waterloo
Blue Bonnets
Scots Wha Hae
Ceilidhs
- Let's Have a Ceilidh
Dancing Feet
Fairy Dance
Kelsey's Wee Reel
The Keel Row
The Kilt is my Delight
Speed the Plough
The Muckin o' Geordie's Byre
The Devil amang the Tailors
Drowsy Maggie
Burns Suppers
- Auld Lang Syne
Ye Jacobites by Name
A Man's a Man for A ' That
Corn Riggs
Comin' thru the Rye
Bonnie Dundee
Leezy Lindsay
Kenmure's on and Awa'
The Soldier's Return
John Anderson my Jo
Up in the Morning Early
Highland Games
- With a hundred Pipers
Sword Dance
March of the Cameron Men
The Campbells are Coming
The Conundrum
Itchy Fingers
Glasgow Police Pipers
The Castle Walls
Teribus Ye Terioden
Going Home
Funerals
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Amazing Grace
Flowers of the Forest
Mist Covered Mountains
The Dark Island
The Wee Spree
Pibroch of Donald Dhu
When the Battle's Over
Lord Lovat's Lament
The Minstrel Boy
Oft in the Stilly Night
Irish
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The Wild Rover
The Wearing of the Green
The Irish Washerwoman
The Irishman's Heart to the Ladies
For Ireland I'll tell not her Name
Cork Hill
Kesh Jig
The Jolly Beggarman
40 Pound Float
The Mason's Apron