strathspeys

When I took up the pipes in the dawn and blew the bag full of air, it was marches and strathspeys I played into the brightening silence, no longer the sad regrets of the piobaireachd.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Women being in short supply, the innkeeper's wife and I tucked up our skirts and danced jigs and reels and strathspeys without ceasing, until I had to stop and lean against the settle, red-faced and gasping for breath.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

But the second tune is one of my favourite strathspeys, "Lady Madeleine Sinclair".

Oh, Fine. Just Fine. John 2008

Mr. McFittoch would have turned out Richard against the country-side in the minuet, and wagered the thing dearest to him in the world, (and that was his kit,) upon his assured superiority; but he admitted Hartley was superior to him in hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

“As through his dear strathspeys he bore with Highland rage.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Sometimes his vocals were drowned out by the crowd singing right along with him, and at other times, audience members, transported by the power of his music, performed jigs or strathspeys in the aisles.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: November 2006 Archives 2006

However that might be, these fire-maidens had the reputation of frequenting the ruins of the old castle and there performing wild strathspeys, especially on dark nights.

The Underground City 2003

When I took up the pipes in the dawn and blew the bag full of air, it was marches and strathspeys I played into the brightening silence, no longer the sad regrets of the piobaireachd.

To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

Reels, strathspeys, flings; they danced them all, feet on the board floor sending echoes among the rafters, buckles on shoes flashing, and every time the pattern changed someone would throw back his head, emit that shrill, ululating whoop, set off trains of cries from other exuberant throats.

The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

This is known as the Scotch catch or snap, and evidently originated in the strathspeys, though it is now a distinction of many fine songs, notably so of "Roy's Wife of Aldavalloch."

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various