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
Image: plate by David Allan, from The Gentle Shepherd (Glasgow: A Foulis, 1788), an edition with music, from the University … Read more
Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more
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
Photo credit: author, reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History. I had a very … Read more
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), who passed away at the age of 92, on 11 February 2022 in Moose Factory, Northern Ontario, … Read more
Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more
Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
Of interest to medievalists and early modern historians more generally, the NLS has completed its digitisation project for Medieval and … Read more
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