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Review: Mary-Jannet Leith, on Scottish Musicians, Music-Making and Culture in Eighteenth Century London 1741-1815

14 April 202514 April 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cartoon by Isaak Cruikshank of Jane, 2nd Duchess of Gordon as ‘A Tartan Belle’ (1792) (p.165) Mary-Jannet Leith is … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, bagpipes, HighlandSocietyofLondon, JamesOswald, JohnGow, RobertBremner, ScottishDance Leave a comment
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Review: Jeannie Robertson: The Queen Among the Heather

31 March 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Following up on our previous post about the music associated with the Battle of Harlaw, Soundyngs is reviewing a recording … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, FolkRevival, Folksong, JeannieRobertson, ScottishMusic, Songs, Travellers Leave a comment
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Review: Harlaw Scotland 1411

18 March 202517 March 2025 by Jane Pettegree

When Soundyngs started back in January 2022, we were already 11 years after the 600th anniversary of the Battle of … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags bagpipes, Ballad, Fiddle, Gaelic, GaelicSong, Harlaw, ScottishMusic 3 Comments
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Review: Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy

3 March 20253 March 2025 by Jane Pettegree

In Soundyngs’ very first post in January 2022 we suggested that this site had a working definition of ‘Scottish Music’ … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, ClassicalMusic, FolkMusic, Historiography, Popular Music, PopularMusic, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment
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Hamish Henderson: centenary and legacy

17 February 2025 by Jane Pettegree

This post is something of a late ripple washing back from the tsunami of writing that celebrated, back in 2019, … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Folksong, FolksongRevival, HamishHenderson Leave a comment
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Review: The Eliza Ross Collection

3 February 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Raasay House, photo attribution John Darcy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. . This, the … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, bagpipes, ElizaRoss, Gaelic, Raasay, Skye, Song Leave a comment
Book cover The Scottish Orpheus a collection of the most admired songs of Scotland

Review: A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity Scotland’s Printed Music 1880-1951

6 January 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Karen McAulay has, until this summer, been a librarian at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, and she brings her skills as … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, CommunitySinging, Glasgow, MusicEducation, MusicPublishing, Printing, Publishing, Victorian Leave a comment
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Review: Since Yesterday – the Untold Story of Scotland’s Girlbands

16 December 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Still from Since Yesterday, photo credit Euan Robertson A packed Dundee Contemporary Arts centre was the venue for those … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Film, Pop, Popular Music, Postpunk, RockMusic, Women Leave a comment
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Review: Marjory Kennedy Fraser’s Songs of the Hebrides: a virtual concert-lecture

2 December 2024 by Joan Busby

Soundyngs editor writes: recently I visited Joan Busby, and a cup of tea turned into a wonderful private 2 hour … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Gaelic, KennedyFraser, Song Leave a comment
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Review: MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe

4 November 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs’ reviews are sometimes of recent works, and other times of books that have recently arrived on Soundyngs shelves and … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags 18thCentury, bagpipes Leave a comment
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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
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Review: Ronald Center (1913-73) : Centenary and Beyond

30 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

This week’s post on a talented but undeservedly neglected composer has been prompted by some recent chat with Jamie Reid … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Choir, Piano, Song Leave a comment
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