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16thCentury

17th century map of the British isles, Atlantic, and Scandinavia

17th Century Danish Music with Scottish Connections

14 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

With thanks to Bodil Partridge, who told me recently about Thomas Kingo, a 17th century Danish composer with family roots … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, 17thCentury, Denmark, Psalms, Song, Trumpets Leave a comment
Title page of the Gude and Godlie Ballatis edition of 1600 with blackletter font type and ornamental foliage framing this

Review: Ross W Dufflin (ed.), Gude & Godlie Ballatis Noted

28 July 202324 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cover of a 1600 edition of the Gude and Godle Ballatis, from Wikipedia / Project Gutenberg Soundyngs has posted … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 16thCentury, Ballad, Psalms, Reformation, Renaissance Leave a comment
Printed page of psalm 1 with music from the 1564 Scottish psalter

Scottish Psalms Online – A New Split-leaf Resource

26 May 202319 May 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Scottish musical identity has steered a course through national history navigating between the devil’s fiddle and the psalm book of … Read more

Categories General Tags 16thCentury, 21stCentury, Psalms Leave a comment
Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh's George Street

Dancing in the Athens of the North

31 December 2022 by Jane Pettegree

New research continues to add detail to our understanding of the role played by dancing in the historical musical life … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, 17thCentury, 18thCentury, 19thCentury, AssemblyRoom, Dance, Edinburgh, Reel, Strathspey Leave a comment
Soundwaves

Imagining Scotland’s Historic Soundscapes

23 August 2022 by Jane Pettegree

“Archaeoacoustics” is the name of relatively new field of interdisciplinary studies which – as the name suggests – combines archaeology … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, 18thCentury, Ancient, Archaeoacoustics, EdinburghMusicSociety, RobertCarver, Soundscape, WemyssCaves Leave a comment
Lesmahagow Missal NLS229918121

Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland

25 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Of interest to medievalists and early modern historians more generally, the NLS has completed its digitisation project for Medieval and … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 13thCentury, 15thCentury, 16thCentury, Medieval, Renaissance, Sacred, SacredMusic, Song Leave a comment
Crail Parish Church

Distant Echoes: Records of Early Modern Soundscapes from Crail Parish Church

13 May 2022 by Dr Bess Rhodes

As live voices gradually began to re-sound in Scotland’s churches after the COVID-19 shutdowns, many have been dismayed to learn … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, Medieval, Reformation, Renaissance, SacredMusic Leave a comment

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