Скачать или смотреть Lochanside bagpipe harmonies

My own 'seconds' for John MacLellan's "Lochanside" - download the sheet music (and lots more!) at ►   / jennabagpipes  

Generally speaking, harmonies for run-of-the-mill marches are just parallel thirds (meaning two notes above or two notes below the main melody). It's a beautiful texture, but sometimes it obscures the melody's natural chord progression, and can sound awkward. So before I wrote these harmonies, I started with a harmonic analysis, and worked in a little counterpoint instead of staying strictly parallel to the 'firsts'.

(Firsts, seconds, parallel thirds... sounds like an Abbott and Costello bit)

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