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General John Reid detail from portrait, holding a flute

Review: Elizabeth C Ford, “The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”

27 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, DavidDow, Flute, JamesOswald, JohnReid, Pibroch Leave a comment
Ossian with harp and Malvina

Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”

13 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Modernism, Orchestra, Ossian, Romantic, Songs Leave a comment
A highland dancer dancing a sword dance in a competition

Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”

14 June 20226 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Aberdeen, Dance, ScottSkinner Leave a comment
Stornoway Herring Girl

More on the Gaelic Songs of Hebridean Herring Gutters

10 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Gaelic, Herring, Song Leave a comment
Dundee Street Songs book title

Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952

14 February 202214 February 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 Introduced, edited and annotated by Margaret Bennett, and illustrated … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Children, Dundee, Education Leave a comment
Singing the Gospel book cover

Singing the Gospel along Scotland’s North-East Coast, 1859-2009

4 February 2022 by Frances Wilkins

Editor: Northern Scotland’s Evangelical revival is an important aspect of religious cultural and tradition which this  book, published in the … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Evangelical, Fishing, Religion Leave a comment

Review: Concerto Caledonia, Songs of Home and Distant Isles

17 January 2022 by Editor

Released in 2020 from the growing HIP stable of Concerto Caledonia, this fascinating project explores the music taken by Scots … Read more

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