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An ornate room with a vaulted decorated plaster ceiling, a large pipe organ, and seats laid out for a wedding

Edwardian Music Rooms in Scottish Great Houses

21 October 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: Fyvie Castle Music Gallery (author’s own photographs) “Domestic music-making” means different things in different homes.  Soundyngs learnt recently … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, bagpipes, Castle, Edwardian, Fiddle, Harmonium, MusicRoom, Organ, Piano Leave a comment
Story to Every Dance book cover with Scottish dancers and newspaper montage

Mats Melin and Scottish Dance: A Short Appreciation

11 October 20247 October 2024 by Jane Pettegree

In Soundyngs’ travels this summer, a highland library shelf threw up a rather interesting book called A Sutherland Dance (1977), … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags Dance, Melin, ScottishDance, ScottishDanceMusic, StepDance Leave a comment
Muscular young man in a Scottish landscape with a tartan plaid on his shoulders, with a legend describing the Banks and Braes of Scotland, and a tartan frame

The Sound of Scotland – what is ‘Scottish film music’?

23 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Advert for Rob Roy (Westminster Films, dir. W. P. Kelling, 1922), in The Bioscope, Thursday 21st September 1922, p.7. … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Film Leave a comment

Soundscapes and Natural Histories: Listening to Portmoak

20 September 20246 September 2024 by Natasha Currie

Image: crosssection of a bank on the perimeter of Portmoak Moss, showing how deep the peat is, and its layers. … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 21stCentury, Environment, Prehistoric, Soundscape Leave a comment
A carved stone with a seated warrior playing a triangular shaped harp

The Dupplin Cross: Harping on Kingship

2 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

In its summer visits, Soundyngs stood in front of a very beautiful thing in St Serf’s Church, in the Perthshire … Read more

Categories Articles Tags DarkAges, Harp, Medieval, Organ, Perthshire, Picts, SacredMusic Leave a comment
A painted ceiling boss of Hercules carrying a large wooden club, dressed in classical robes

Stirling, August 1594: Music at the Baptism of Prince Henry Stuart

19 August 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Stirling Castle Ceiling Boss, Hercules, from the King’s Chamber. Attribution: dun_deagh, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, JamesVI, Psalms, Stirling Leave a comment

Researching Music Publishing in Scotland before 1900: two databases

5 August 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: Edinburgh in 1769, from G H Millar, The New and Universal System of Geography c1782 (Morris, Public Domain, … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, 17thCentury, 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Book, MusicPublishing Leave a comment

Remembering Dundee’s Music Halls

22 July 202422 July 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Dundee People’s Palace Programme 1891 (with thanks to Billy Rough) A recent exhibition in the Dundee Central Library … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, Dundee, MusicHall Leave a comment

Robert Burns in the Belfast Linen Hall Library

8 July 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Summertime is here, and Soundyngs is beginning to get a wee bit itinerant.  This post finds us in Belfast’s Linen … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, Burns, UlsterScots Leave a comment
6 rock musicians on a stage at the end of a concert, waving goodbye

Highland Rock Bands in late 20th Century Scotland

24 June 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Runrig’s final concert, ‘The Last Dance’ in Stirling, August 2018. Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, Gaelic, Rock, RockMusic Leave a comment
16th century book title page for Jean Servins psalms

From Geneva to Stirling: Jean Servin in the Court of James VI

10 June 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Another post this week on the topic of musical visitors to Scotland from Europe, intersecting this time on the strand … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, Franco-Scottish, JeanServin, Psalms Leave a comment
4 men in Salvation Army uniform playing in a band

The Revelations: Gospel and Country Music in the Far North

27 May 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: The Revelations. L to R: John Stewart, Sandy Bremner, Ricky Mackay and David Dunnet. It may come as a … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, Caithness, CountryandWesternMusic, CountryMusic, GospelMusic, Highlands, Religion, Thurso Leave a comment
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