Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’: new scholarly edition with music
Image: plate by David Allan, from The Gentle Shepherd (Glasgow: A Foulis, 1788), an edition with music, from the University … Read more
Review: Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, “Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song”
Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more
Review: Virginia Blankenhorn, “Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song”
Virginia Blankenhorn, Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019) ISBN 978-1-78874-552-9 Virginia Blankenhorn … Read more
Flute music in the Atholl Collection: Military Echoes
Photo credit: author, reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History. I had a very … Read more
Review: Caroline Macafee, “Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections”
Caroline Macafee, Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2021), … Read more
James Cheechoo (1929-2022), the ‘Last of the James Bay Fiddlers’, and his Scottish Connection
James Cheechoo (1929-2022), who passed away at the age of 92, on 11 February 2022 in Moose Factory, Northern Ontario, … Read more
Review: Elizabeth C Ford, “The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”
Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more
The Atholl Collection in Perth – catalogue pdf available
Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more
Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland
Of interest to medievalists and early modern historians more generally, the NLS has completed its digitisation project for Medieval and … Read more
Distant Echoes: Records of Early Modern Soundscapes from Crail Parish Church
As live voices gradually began to re-sound in Scotland’s churches after the COVID-19 shutdowns, many have been dismayed to learn … Read more