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
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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
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