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
Articles
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
Historical Harping 2: Who Was Rory Dall?
Image: Da Mihi Manum, from Twelve English and Twelve Irish Airs for the German Flute, Violin or Harpsichord, Vol 2 … Read more
Minding the Gaps: Pre-histories of Scottish Harps and Harpists
Image: Queen Mary Harp, in the National Museum of Scotland, photograph by David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 The clarsach, or … Read more
Hamish Henderson: centenary and legacy
This post is something of a late ripple washing back from the tsunami of writing that celebrated, back in 2019, … Read more
Reconstructing Sacred Polyphony from Renaissance Aberdeen
Image: Fragment of written notes, found in the Breviarum Aberdonense, from the National Library of Scotland RB.x.002-003, https://digital.nls.uk/103009037 New research … Read more
Happy Mid-Winter 2024: A Short Digest of Scottish Christmas Traditions
Image: Fire – I, MarcusObal, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2386768 A short post this one – simply signposting you on to … Read more
Gaelic Boating Songs: Ancient and (more) Modern
Image: Harbour and Castle at Helmsdale, Am Baile ID QZP40_Card_5608 Highland Libraries Postcard Collection It’s a truism that the Gaels … Read more
Review: MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe
Soundyngs’ reviews are sometimes of recent works, and other times of books that have recently arrived on Soundyngs shelves and … Read more
Edwardian Music Rooms in Scottish Great Houses
Featured image: Fyvie Castle Music Gallery (author’s own photographs) “Domestic music-making” means different things in different homes. Soundyngs learnt recently … Read more