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Engraving from a 19th century book illustration of Auld Lang Syne of men amicably shaking hands

Linking Arms for Auld Lang Syne: Celebrating Friendship

23 December 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Illustration to Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by J.M. Wright and Edward Scriven. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: … Read more

Categories General Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, AuldLangSyne, Burns, Song Leave a comment

Glasgow Pavilion Theatre: Scottish Music Hall heritage at a crossroads

26 September 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image attribution: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This weekend, it was reported in the Scottish press that … Read more

Categories General Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Glasgow, MusicHall Leave a comment
The Gentle Shepherd meets his long-lost father engraving from 18th century edition

Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’: new scholarly edition with music

25 July 202225 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: plate by David Allan, from The Gentle Shepherd (Glasgow: A Foulis, 1788), an edition with music, from the University … Read more

Categories General, Reviews Tags 18thCentury, AllanRamsay, Scots, Song Leave a comment
Fiddle sideways

Scottish Fiddle: traces of oral culture in printed 18th century collections?

23 March 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Today’s post discusses one area of ongoing research: the relationship between literate and oral cultures of transmission in the 18th … Read more

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