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Black and white engraving from a 19th century biography of Lady Nairne as a young woman, her head covered by a veil, lace around her neck, and placed within an oval frame

Review: Freeland Barbour, “The White Rose of Gask: The Life of Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne” (2019)

2 March 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Freeland Barbour, accordionist, composer, radio and record producer, is a descendent of Lady Nairne’s sister, and this alongside his own … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Carolina Oliphant, Jacobite, LadyNairne, Song Leave a comment
A folk-rock band from the 1960s The Clutha

Review: Eleanor Bell and Linda Gunn (eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution?

1 February 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image source: Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame (Hands up for Trad) – on The Clutha.   This year marks … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Edinburgh, Festival, FolkMusic, FolksongRevival, Glasgow, Jazz, Pop, Rock Leave a comment
Early music ensemble with a bass viol, lute, recorder and singer, with a tapestry behind them

The Spinacino Consort: The Music of Elizabeth Melville

23 January 202323 January 2023 by Eric Thomas

Editor: The Spinacino Consort is based in Scotland, and its performances draw on careful research about the early modern song … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags AaronMcGregor, Calvinist, ElizabethMelville, EricThomas, Lute, Recorder, Renaissance, Song, Viol, Violin Leave a comment
James Hogg painted as the Ettrick Shepherd by Sir John Waton Gordon

Review: “James Hogg, Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs”, ed. Kirsteen McCue

9 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830.  CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags 19thCentury, JamesHogg, KirsteenMcCue, Romantic, Scots, Song, Songs, WalterScott Leave a comment
map of Scotland using a collage of old sheet music

Review: The “St Andrews Scottish Songbook”: A New Chapter in a Scots Drawing Room Singing

14 December 202213 December 2022 by Jane Pettegree

While some songs from this new anthology were performed by Seamus Begg in October during the 2022 St Andrews Voices … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags Gaelic, Scots, Song, Songs Leave a comment
Early music ensemble playing fiddle, cello, harpsichord, and recorder

Review: ‘Full of the Highland Humours’, recording by Ensemble Hesperi

24 November 202223 November 2022 by Jane Pettegree

(featured in image): Ensemble Hesperi performers Mary-Jannet Leith – recorders Magdalena Loth-Hill – baroque violin Florence Petit – baroque cello … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 17thCentury, 18thCentury, EnsembleHesperi, Fiddle, Flute, JamesOswald, Recorder, RobertBremner, ThomasErskine Leave a comment
Contemporary College Building in Glasgow

Review: Josephine Miller’s “Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland”

7 November 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: the John Wheatley Building and Community College, Haghill, in East End Glasgow, used as the venue for many classes … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 21stCentury, Fiddle, FolkMusic, Glasgow, Pedagogy, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment
19th century New South Wales landscape

More on Scottish Music in 19th century Australia

31 October 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Victoria, Australia, painted by Eugene von Guerard. Use free of conditions from www.goodfreephotos.com Soundyngs earlier this year reviewed an … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Australia, Flute, Guitar, Piano, Song Leave a comment
Robert Burns's English Guittar

From Epic to Lyric: Macpherson and Oswald’s Ossianic Guittar Music

7 February 202318 October 2022 by Jane Pettegree

In a previous post, Soundyngs reviewed James Porter’s recent monograph, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (2019).  In … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, Guitar, JamesMacpherson, JamesOswald, Ossian, Romantic, Song Leave a comment
Edison Recording Cylinders circa 18955

Scottish Music on Early Cylinder Recordings

31 August 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Before Covid19, the idea of online concerts was rather niche, but in the past two years, these have become an … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Bagpipe, Fiddle, Grammophone, HarryLauder, HistoricRecording, JamesScottSkinner, MusicHall, Phonograph, Song 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
Robert Burns Black and White Portrait

Review: Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, “Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song”

18 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Burns, Gaelic, Scots, Song, Songs Leave a comment
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