Review: Elizabeth C Ford, “The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”
Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more
Reviews
Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
More on the Gaelic Songs of Hebridean Herring Gutters
Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more
Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952
Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 Introduced, edited and annotated by Margaret Bennett, and illustrated … Read more
Singing the Gospel along Scotland’s North-East Coast, 1859-2009
Editor: Northern Scotland’s Evangelical revival is an important aspect of religious cultural and tradition which this book, published in the … Read more
Review: Concerto Caledonia, Songs of Home and Distant Isles
Released in 2020 from the growing HIP stable of Concerto Caledonia, this fascinating project explores the music taken by Scots … Read more