hpm tune examples.

Weddings.

Caledonia

Can you feel the love tonight (the theme from the Lion King)

Mendelsson's wedding march

Highland cathedral

Wagners bridal march (here comes the bride).

The theme from braveheart (a gift of a thistle/for the love of a Princess).

The trumpet voluntary

Mairi's wedding.

Funerals.

The most appropriate tunes to lead the funeral cortege to the ceremony are retreat marches, typical examples being:

Colin’s cattle (my heart’s in the highlands)

The green hills (a Scottish soldier)

When the battles `o’er

Typical graveside requests are:

Abide with me.

The dark island.

Amazing grace.

Highland cathedral

Macpherson’s rant

Flowers of the forest.

Be still my soul

Hector the hero

Sleep deary sleep

The bells of Dunblane

Going home, an ela bhan (the fair swan)

Burns/Corporate events.

Pipe the haggis in/out to these typical Burns tunes:

Duncan Grey

Corn rigs.

A man’s a man

Rantin rovin Robin.

Yea banks and brae’s

If a body meets a body

A fond kiss.

Hogmanay.

Auld lang syne is a must for “Playing in the bells”, and whatever selection of tunes is played to follow on from that must surely finish with the age old favourite nae awa tae bide awa.

Party.

Happy birthday

Loch Lomond

Deep in the heart of Texas, yea canny shove yer Granny of a bus nice one Cyril / the grand old Duke of York

Pack up your troubles in an old kit back, it’s a long way to Tipperary, wooden heart

The can-can

The fairytail of New York

We wish you a merry xmas, we three Kings, good King Wenceslas, jingle bells, God rest ye merry Gentlemen

Romantic.

I am sailing

Mull of Kintyre

The rose

The rhythm of my heart

When Irish eyes are smiling, come by the hills

Traditional.

The flower of Scotland

Keep the home fires burning

Land of my Fathers

Pokare-kare-ana

Scotland forever

Waltzing Matilda

The fields of Athenry

Scottish pipe music.

2 4 – Teribus, Corriechollies, the brown haired maiden, the high road to Gairloch, highland laddie

3 4 – The green hills, the battles ‘o’er, Lochanside

3 4 – Colins cattle, castle dangerous, JK cairns

4 4 – The rowan tree, bonnie Galloway, Scotland the brave

4 4 – The bonnie lass of Fyvie, the hiking song, I love a lassie, n’ae awa tae bide awa

4 4 – Lord Lovats lament, the children’s song, the police tattoo, Jimmy Findlater, the music of the Spey

4 4 – Loch Lomond, dawning of the day

6 8 – Port Askaig, PM Sam Scott, JD Burgess

6 8 – Dovecote Park, the blue bonnets

6 8 – Kenmuir’s up an awa, the Midlothian pipe band, the braw lad

6 8 – bonnie Dundee, the mucking of Geordie’s byre, a hundred pipers

9 8 – the battle of the Somme, the heights of Dargi

Medley – the mermaid’s song, the Glasgow City police pipers, the banjo breakdown, the old hag at the churn, the Fittie boatman

Medley – barren rocks, orange and blue, Molly Connell, the ale is dear, tail toddle, the kilt is my delight, circasian circle