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Jane Pettegree

Woodcut of a tinker packman followed by a dog, printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway, in the 19th century

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 3: songs and chapbooks

2 October 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Cover of a 19th Chapbook printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway (author’s own photograph) This is the last of … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Ayrshire, Borders, Burns, Galloway, Songs Leave a comment

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 2: The Mansfield Manuscript

18 September 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Kirkcudbright, by Kenny Lam, from Visit Scotland Website In Soundyngs’ last post, I discussed the song collecting activity … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Ballads, Edinburgh, Galloway, Songs Leave a comment
Georgian House, red painted, with signs saying Broughton House

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 1: The Macmath Manuscript

4 September 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Broughton House, photograph by Lorna M Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Soundyngs went to Galloway this … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Ballads, Galloway Leave a comment
Dunkeld main street with market cross

Dunkeld Fiddlers and Music Archives

18 September 202328 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

With thanks to Pete Clark and Munro Gauld for filling in some of the gaps. Dunkeld is widely known as … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Dunkeld, Fiddle, NielGow Leave a comment
window on ruined church with sky and clouds

Review: Window to the West: Culture and Environment in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd

23 August 202321 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cover art from Window to the West This book, jointly authored by Meg Bateman and John Purser, is an … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Bagpipe, Clarsach, Fiddle, Gaelic, Song Leave a comment
17th century map of the British isles, Atlantic, and Scandinavia

17th Century Danish Music with Scottish Connections

14 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

With thanks to Bodil Partridge, who told me recently about Thomas Kingo, a 17th century Danish composer with family roots … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, 17thCentury, Denmark, Psalms, Song, Trumpets Leave a comment
A folk band of 5 players, 4 seated (dulcimer, banjo and fiddles) and one standing up (guitar)

Review: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

7 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: The Bog Trotters Band, in Galax, Virginia, 1937.  Autoharp, fiddlers, guitar. Geologically, the Appalachians are a continuation of the … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Appalachia, ScotsIrish Leave a comment
17th century lute tablature handwritten

17th Century Lutes around the North Sea Littoral

31 July 202331 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: from the Thysius Lutebook, 17th century lute tablature (French style) Soundyngs went on a trip to the Netherlands recently … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 17thCent, Lute Leave a comment
Title page of the Gude and Godlie Ballatis edition of 1600 with blackletter font type and ornamental foliage framing this

Review: Ross W Dufflin (ed.), Gude & Godlie Ballatis Noted

28 July 202324 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cover of a 1600 edition of the Gude and Godle Ballatis, from Wikipedia / Project Gutenberg Soundyngs has posted … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 16thCentury, Ballad, Psalms, Reformation, Renaissance Leave a comment
A stone gargoyle covering its ears with its hands, and making a grotesque face

Older Scots Flyting and Hip Hop

17 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: ‘hear no evil’ gargoyle on Paisley Abbey. Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent posts from Soundyngs have been … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags flyting, hiphop, Medieval, Poetry, Renaissance, Scots Leave a comment
A red carpet, with an important man wearing white robes walking down the middle, flanked by a double row of bagpipers wearing tartan trousers and military dress jackets and hats.

Post-colonial Bagpiping: Nigeria in context

10 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: from article, Jane Flanagan, ‘Skirl of the bagpipes thrills Nigeria’, The Times Feb 29 2020 At the end … Read more

Categories General Tags Africa, Bagpipe, bagpipes, HongKong, India, Nigeria, postcolonial, Singapore Leave a comment
a battle at sea, 18th century painting, with sailing boats firing canon

Militant Music in 1797: All at Sea with Urbani’s Ever-Memorable Battle of Bannockburn

3 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: The Battle of Camperdown October 1797, by Thomas WhitcombeRoyal Museums Greenwich catalogue CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license A new EP release … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, Burns, Military, Song, Urbini Leave a comment
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