Scottish Psalms Online – A New Split-leaf Resource
Scottish musical identity has steered a course through national history navigating between the devil’s fiddle and the psalm book of … Read more
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Review: Concerto Caledonia, “Shepherds & Tea Tables: Songs of Allan Ramsay”
Concerto Caledonia currently lead the field in historically-informed performances of Scottish music, and bring to their work awareness of both … Read more
Research Profile: Stuart Eydmann on the Concertina in Scotland
Soundyngs’ last post discussed the importance of ‘big box’ accordions to Scottish dance music and called for more writing on … Read more
Linking Arms for Auld Lang Syne: Celebrating Friendship
Image: Illustration to Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by J.M. Wright and Edward Scriven. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: … Read more
Glasgow Pavilion Theatre: Scottish Music Hall heritage at a crossroads
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
Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’: new scholarly edition with music
Image: plate by David Allan, from The Gentle Shepherd (Glasgow: A Foulis, 1788), an edition with music, from the University … Read more
Scottish Fiddle: traces of oral culture in printed 18th century collections?
Today’s post discusses one area of ongoing research: the relationship between literate and oral cultures of transmission in the 18th … Read more