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The Rise & Development Of Military Music

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	MILITARY MUSIC (1500-1700).                   27
	Kastner,3 borrowed it from us. Stanihurst tells us that with the Irish as well, the bagpipe was a warlike instru­ment, and according to Mr. Grattan-Flood4 the well-known picture of a piper by Diirer is a representative from the "Land of Song." In Ireland, the break-up
	Fig. 3.                                            « PIPER (SIXTEENTH CENTURY). BY ALBRECHT DURER. of the Gaelic polity after the Cromwellian wars, put
	'Kastuer, "Manuel General de Musique Militaire," 1848. 4 Grattan-Flood, "History of Irish Music," 1906.