Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 3: songs and chapbooks
Featured Image: Cover of a 19th Chapbook printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway (author’s own photograph) This is the last of … Read more
Jane Pettegree
Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 2: The Mansfield Manuscript
Featured Image: Kirkcudbright, by Kenny Lam, from Visit Scotland Website In Soundyngs’ last post, I discussed the song collecting activity … Read more
Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 1: The Macmath Manuscript
Featured Image: Broughton House, photograph by Lorna M Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Soundyngs went to Galloway this … Read more
Dunkeld Fiddlers and Music Archives
With thanks to Pete Clark and Munro Gauld for filling in some of the gaps. Dunkeld is widely known as … Read more
Review: Window to the West: Culture and Environment in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd
Image: cover art from Window to the West This book, jointly authored by Meg Bateman and John Purser, is an … Read more
17th Century Danish Music with Scottish Connections
With thanks to Bodil Partridge, who told me recently about Thomas Kingo, a 17th century Danish composer with family roots … Read more
Review: Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Image: The Bog Trotters Band, in Galax, Virginia, 1937. Autoharp, fiddlers, guitar. Geologically, the Appalachians are a continuation of the … Read more
17th Century Lutes around the North Sea Littoral
Image: from the Thysius Lutebook, 17th century lute tablature (French style) Soundyngs went on a trip to the Netherlands recently … Read more
Review: Ross W Dufflin (ed.), Gude & Godlie Ballatis Noted
Image: cover of a 1600 edition of the Gude and Godle Ballatis, from Wikipedia / Project Gutenberg Soundyngs has posted … Read more
Older Scots Flyting and Hip Hop
Image: ‘hear no evil’ gargoyle on Paisley Abbey. Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent posts from Soundyngs have been … Read more
Post-colonial Bagpiping: Nigeria in context
Featured image: from article, Jane Flanagan, ‘Skirl of the bagpipes thrills Nigeria’, The Times Feb 29 2020 At the end … Read more
Militant Music in 1797: All at Sea with Urbani’s Ever-Memorable Battle of Bannockburn
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