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18thCentury

a cartoon drawing of a woman dressed in a fancy tartan bonnet and dress

Review: Mary-Jannet Leith, on Scottish Musicians, Music-Making and Culture in Eighteenth Century London 1741-1815

14 April 202514 April 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cartoon by Isaak Cruikshank of Jane, 2nd Duchess of Gordon as ‘A Tartan Belle’ (1792) (p.165) Mary-Jannet Leith is … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, bagpipes, HighlandSocietyofLondon, JamesOswald, JohnGow, RobertBremner, ScottishDance Leave a comment
Book cover Understanding Scotland Musically Folk Tradition and Policy with title, author names and abstract colour design (not tartan)

Review: Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy

3 March 20253 March 2025 by Jane Pettegree

In Soundyngs’ very first post in January 2022 we suggested that this site had a working definition of ‘Scottish Music’ … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, ClassicalMusic, FolkMusic, Historiography, Popular Music, PopularMusic, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment
A Georgian country house set in lawns with a backdrop of forested hillside

Review: The Eliza Ross Collection

3 February 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Raasay House, photo attribution John Darcy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. . This, the … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, bagpipes, ElizaRoss, Gaelic, Raasay, Skye, Song Leave a comment
old photograph with a castle on a hill, a harbour and fishing boats with sails

Gaelic Boating Songs: Ancient and (more) Modern

18 November 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Harbour and Castle at Helmsdale, Am Baile ID QZP40_Card_5608 Highland Libraries Postcard Collection It’s a truism that the Gaels … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Boats, Gaelic, Sea, Songs Leave a comment
line drawing of a bagpiper, with the pipes larger than scale, with one drone very much larger than scale

Review: MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe

4 November 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs’ reviews are sometimes of recent works, and other times of books that have recently arrived on Soundyngs shelves and … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags 18thCentury, bagpipes Leave a comment

Researching Music Publishing in Scotland before 1900: two databases

5 August 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: Edinburgh in 1769, from G H Millar, The New and Universal System of Geography c1782 (Morris, Public Domain, … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 16thCentury, 17thCentury, 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Book, MusicPublishing Leave a comment

Robert Burns in the Belfast Linen Hall Library

8 July 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Summertime is here, and Soundyngs is beginning to get a wee bit itinerant.  This post finds us in Belfast’s Linen … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, Burns, UlsterScots Leave a comment
Sheet music with a lace love heart

Valentine’s Day with the Corris in Regency Edinburgh

15 February 202414 February 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: “The Lass of Pattie’s Mill”, lyrics by Allan Ramsay, arranged by Dominico Corri, from his “A New & Complete … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Concerts, Edinburgh, Italy, Songs Leave a comment
cover page of a book of Circus tunes, reels and strathspeys published in 1791

Review: ‘Music by Subscription’: music publishing in Scotland in the 18th and early 19thc

11 December 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed At Edinburgh this Season, with the Addition of Some New Reels and Strathspeys … Read more

Categories General Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Book, Edinburgh, MusicPublishing, NielGow, Reel, Song, Strathspey Leave a comment
Woodcut of a tinker packman followed by a dog, printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway, in the 19th century

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 3: songs and chapbooks

2 October 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Cover of a 19th Chapbook printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway (author’s own photograph) This is the last of … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Ayrshire, Borders, Burns, Galloway, Songs Leave a comment

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 2: The Mansfield Manuscript

18 September 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Kirkcudbright, by Kenny Lam, from Visit Scotland Website In Soundyngs’ last post, I discussed the song collecting activity … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Ballads, Edinburgh, Galloway, Songs Leave a comment
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Dunkeld Fiddlers and Music Archives

18 September 202328 August 2023 by Jane Pettegree

With thanks to Pete Clark and Munro Gauld for filling in some of the gaps. Dunkeld is widely known as … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Dunkeld, Fiddle, NielGow Leave a comment
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