The Crannog at Loch Tay: whistles and lyres
Image: whistle and lyre bridge, from EXARC.net 2020(1), Collinson, photographed under CC BY-NC 4.0 licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en Soundyngs recently wrote about … Read more
Jane Pettegree
Burns’s Family Flute and Other Pastoral Pipes
Image: Burns Family Flute display from Ellisland Farm Museum. Please see Further Reading for their site and how to contribute … Read more
Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions … Read more
Scottish Musical Place Names
Image: Piper Street in Keith (author’s own photograph) Summer holidays always throw up some musical curiosities, and this year’s highlight … Read more
Iceland and Scotland: Some Musical Connections
Summer is a time for travelling – as the old Vikings knew well. Travelling not so far from home, Soundyngs … Read more
Review: Scottish Life and Society – A Compendium of Scottish Ethnography (14 vols)
This review covers books which have been out for a few years now, but which are part of a larger, … Read more
Canna House Reopens – a wish for the archive
Image: Canna House before refurbishment, Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The National Trust for Scotland … Read more
‘Give Me Your Hand’: Fife connections for this traditional tune
Image: The Towers, Dysart, Fife image from author’s own collection. The Towers, in Dysart’s East Quality Street, was an elegant … Read more
Orcadian war songs: new flytings, old tunes
Image: Five naval colleagues at Lyness, Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, where the main naval base for the British fleet, … Read more
Scottish Music Centre: Curating Scottish Composers and Composition
It’s a strange thing for folk like this writer to realise that stuff going on in our youth is now … Read more
People Make Places: Popular Music and the Academy
Soundyngs normally signposts research outputs, but here’s research-in-the-making, or, practice-based research; singing about history, making history. People Make Places: a … Read more
Lyres before Harps? recent Scottish archaeology
Image: Burnt Lyre Bridge, from High Pasture Cave – from Steven Birch, Case Study, High Pasture Cave (ScARF – Scottish … Read more