Orcadian war songs: new flytings, old tunes
Image: Five naval colleagues at Lyness, Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, where the main naval base for the British fleet, … Read more
Scottish Music Centre: Curating Scottish Composers and Composition
It’s a strange thing for folk like this writer to realise that stuff going on in our youth is now … Read more
People Make Places: Popular Music and the Academy
Soundyngs normally signposts research outputs, but here’s research-in-the-making, or, practice-based research; singing about history, making history. People Make Places: a … Read more
Lyres before Harps? recent Scottish archaeology
Image: Burnt Lyre Bridge, from High Pasture Cave – from Steven Birch, Case Study, High Pasture Cave (ScARF – Scottish … Read more
Historical Harping 2: Who Was Rory Dall?
Image: Da Mihi Manum, from Twelve English and Twelve Irish Airs for the German Flute, Violin or Harpsichord, Vol 2 … Read more
Minding the Gaps: Pre-histories of Scottish Harps and Harpists
Image: Queen Mary Harp, in the National Museum of Scotland, photograph by David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 The clarsach, or … Read more
Review: Mary-Jannet Leith, on Scottish Musicians, Music-Making and Culture in Eighteenth Century London 1741-1815
Image: cartoon by Isaak Cruikshank of Jane, 2nd Duchess of Gordon as ‘A Tartan Belle’ (1792) (p.165) Mary-Jannet Leith is … Read more
Review: Jeannie Robertson: The Queen Among the Heather
Following up on our previous post about the music associated with the Battle of Harlaw, Soundyngs is reviewing a recording … Read more
Review: Harlaw Scotland 1411
When Soundyngs started back in January 2022, we were already 11 years after the 600th anniversary of the Battle of … Read more
Review: Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy
In Soundyngs’ very first post in January 2022 we suggested that this site had a working definition of ‘Scottish Music’ … Read more
Hamish Henderson: centenary and legacy
This post is something of a late ripple washing back from the tsunami of writing that celebrated, back in 2019, … Read more
Review: The Eliza Ross Collection
Image: Raasay House, photo attribution John Darcy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. . This, the … Read more