Review: “James Hogg, Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs”, ed. Kirsteen McCue
Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830. CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more
Reviews
Review: The “St Andrews Scottish Songbook”: A New Chapter in a Scots Drawing Room Singing
While some songs from this new anthology were performed by Seamus Begg in October during the 2022 St Andrews Voices … Read more
Review: ‘Full of the Highland Humours’, recording by Ensemble Hesperi
(featured in image): Ensemble Hesperi performers Mary-Jannet Leith – recorders Magdalena Loth-Hill – baroque violin Florence Petit – baroque cello … Read more
Review: Josephine Miller’s “Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland”
Image: the John Wheatley Building and Community College, Haghill, in East End Glasgow, used as the venue for many classes … Read more
More on Scottish Music in 19th century Australia
Image: Victoria, Australia, painted by Eugene von Guerard. Use free of conditions from www.goodfreephotos.com Soundyngs earlier this year reviewed an … Read more
From Epic to Lyric: Macpherson and Oswald’s Ossianic Guittar Music
In a previous post, Soundyngs reviewed James Porter’s recent monograph, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (2019). In … Read more
Scottish Music on Early Cylinder Recordings
Before Covid19, the idea of online concerts was rather niche, but in the past two years, these have become an … 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
Review: Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, “Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song”
Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more
Review: Virginia Blankenhorn, “Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song”
Virginia Blankenhorn, Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019) ISBN 978-1-78874-552-9 Virginia Blankenhorn … Read more
Review: Caroline Macafee, “Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections”
Caroline Macafee, Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2021), … Read more
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