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The Gentle Shepherd meets his long-lost father engraving from 18th century edition

Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’: new scholarly edition with music

25 July 202225 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: plate by David Allan, from The Gentle Shepherd (Glasgow: A Foulis, 1788), an edition with music, from the University … Read more

Categories General, Reviews Tags 18thCentury, AllanRamsay, Scots, Song Leave a comment
Robert Burns Black and White Portrait

Review: Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, “Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song”

18 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Burns, Gaelic, Scots, Song, Songs Leave a comment
Waulking 18th century engraving

Review: Virginia Blankenhorn, “Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song”

11 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

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

Categories Reviews Tags Gaelic, Poetry, Song Leave a comment
Front page to James Aird Collection with engraving of 18th centuryBritish solders

Flute music in the Atholl Collection: Military Echoes

25 July 20226 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Photo credit: author, reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History. I had a very … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Flute Leave a comment
Scots Folk Singers book cover

Review: Caroline Macafee, “Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections”

11 July 20224 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Caroline Macafee, Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2021), … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Ballad, Child, GreigDuncan, Scots, Song, TobarAnDulchais, Travellers Leave a comment
James Cheechoo playing fiddle at the Blue Lamp, Aberdeen

James Cheechoo (1929-2022), the ‘Last of the James Bay Fiddlers’, and his Scottish Connection

4 July 202230 June 2022 by Frances Wilkins

James Cheechoo (1929-2022), who passed away at the age of 92, on 11 February 2022 in Moose Factory, Northern Ontario, … Read more

Categories Articles Tags Canada, Fiddle, JohnRae, Orkney Leave a comment
General John Reid detail from portrait, holding a flute

Review: Elizabeth C Ford, “The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”

27 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, DavidDow, Flute, JamesOswald, JohnReid, Pibroch Leave a comment
Cover page of the Atholl Collection Catalogue

The Atholl Collection in Perth – catalogue pdf available

25 July 202220 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Bagpipe, Dance, Fiddle, Flute, Song Leave a comment
Ossian with harp and Malvina

Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”

13 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Modernism, Orchestra, Ossian, Romantic, Songs Leave a comment
A highland dancer dancing a sword dance in a competition

Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”

14 June 20226 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Aberdeen, Dance, ScottSkinner Leave a comment
Lesmahagow Missal NLS229918121

Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland

25 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Of interest to medievalists and early modern historians more generally, the NLS has completed its digitisation project for Medieval and … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 13thCentury, 15thCentury, 16thCentury, Medieval, Renaissance, Sacred, SacredMusic, Song Leave a comment
Crail Parish Church

Distant Echoes: Records of Early Modern Soundscapes from Crail Parish Church

13 May 2022 by Dr Bess Rhodes

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

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, Medieval, Reformation, Renaissance, SacredMusic Leave a comment
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