Flute music in the Atholl Collection: Military Echoes
Photo credit: author, reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History. I had a very … Read more
Jane Pettegree
Review: Caroline Macafee, “Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections”
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), the ‘Last of the James Bay Fiddlers’, and his Scottish Connection
James Cheechoo (1929-2022), who passed away at the age of 92, on 11 February 2022 in Moose Factory, Northern Ontario, … Read more
Review: Elizabeth C Ford, “The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”
Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more
The Atholl Collection in Perth – catalogue pdf available
Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more
Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland
Of interest to medievalists and early modern historians more generally, the NLS has completed its digitisation project for Medieval and … Read more
Distant Echoes: Records of Early Modern Soundscapes from Crail Parish Church
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
Frances Tolmie’s Skye Songs: manuscript sources from the National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland is continuing to add to its digital archives material and recent press releases draw our … Read more
More on the Gaelic Songs of Hebridean Herring Gutters
Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more
Perth and Musical Muses in 1638
‘Reading Scotland before 1707’ is the title of the symposium co-hosted by the Folger Research library and the University of … Read more