Reconstructing Sacred Polyphony from Renaissance Aberdeen
Image: Fragment of written notes, found in the Breviarum Aberdonense, from the National Library of Scotland RB.x.002-003, https://digital.nls.uk/103009037 New research … Read more
Jane Pettegree
Review: A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity Scotland’s Printed Music 1880-1951
Karen McAulay has, until this summer, been a librarian at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, and she brings her skills as … Read more
Happy Mid-Winter 2024: A Short Digest of Scottish Christmas Traditions
Image: Fire – I, MarcusObal, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2386768 A short post this one – simply signposting you on to … Read more
Review: Since Yesterday – the Untold Story of Scotland’s Girlbands
Image: Still from Since Yesterday, photo credit Euan Robertson A packed Dundee Contemporary Arts centre was the venue for those … Read more
Review: Marjory Kennedy Fraser’s Songs of the Hebrides: a virtual concert-lecture
Soundyngs editor writes: recently I visited Joan Busby, and a cup of tea turned into a wonderful private 2 hour … Read more
Gaelic Boating Songs: Ancient and (more) Modern
Image: Harbour and Castle at Helmsdale, Am Baile ID QZP40_Card_5608 Highland Libraries Postcard Collection It’s a truism that the Gaels … Read more
Review: MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe
Soundyngs’ reviews are sometimes of recent works, and other times of books that have recently arrived on Soundyngs shelves and … Read more
Edwardian Music Rooms in Scottish Great Houses
Featured image: Fyvie Castle Music Gallery (author’s own photographs) “Domestic music-making” means different things in different homes. Soundyngs learnt recently … Read more
Mats Melin and Scottish Dance: A Short Appreciation
In Soundyngs’ travels this summer, a highland library shelf threw up a rather interesting book called A Sutherland Dance (1977), … Read more
Review: Ronald Center (1913-73) : Centenary and Beyond
This week’s post on a talented but undeservedly neglected composer has been prompted by some recent chat with Jamie Reid … Read more
The Sound of Scotland – what is ‘Scottish film music’?
Image: Advert for Rob Roy (Westminster Films, dir. W. P. Kelling, 1922), in The Bioscope, Thursday 21st September 1922, p.7. … Read more
Review: Songs & Poems Old & New – a Mobile Archive project from Helmsdale
Image: Millie Rapson and Adeline MacPherson singing at the Gaelic MOD, mid-1950s. The Rapson family are local to Helmsdale – … Read more