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
Featured Image: Cover of a 19th Chapbook printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway (author’s own photograph) This is the last of … Read more
Featured Image: Kirkcudbright, by Kenny Lam, from Visit Scotland Website In Soundyngs’ last post, I discussed the song collecting activity … Read more
Featured Image: Broughton House, photograph by Lorna M Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Soundyngs went to Galloway this … Read more
With thanks to Pete Clark and Munro Gauld for filling in some of the gaps. Dunkeld is widely known as … Read more
With thanks to Bodil Partridge, who told me recently about Thomas Kingo, a 17th century Danish composer with family roots … Read more
Image: from the Thysius Lutebook, 17th century lute tablature (French style) Soundyngs went on a trip to the Netherlands recently … Read more
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
Soundyngs features in this post research by Dr Nina Baker, independent engineering historian, on the unexpected connections between the great … Read more
In a month when the music for a coronation has been discussed intensively, the BBC broke the news this week … Read more
One of the many challenges of the word ‘ballad’ is that its range of meanings, even in the Scottish context, … Read more
Soundyngs posted earlier in the year about Celtic Connections, Scotland’s premier international festival for Celtic music. The summer months are … Read more
150th Anniversary Concert – 7:30pm Saturday 25th March 2023, Glasgow City Halls The Victorian age was a great age of … Read more