Musicians at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Image: author’s photo, taken as a tourist with an old mobile phone, of ‘The Lullaby’ (see below). Another post about … Read more
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A Multiplicity of Charlies: the winding path connecting Airlie to Loch Lomond
Image: Airlie Castle By Simon Cotterill – https://www.flickr.com/photos/137828720@N06/51368183908/, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=179738954 If you have patience to read to the end of … Read more
Burns’s Family Flute and Other Pastoral Pipes
Image: Burns Family Flute display from Ellisland Farm Museum. Please see Further Reading for their site and how to contribute … Read more
Review: Scottish Life and Society – A Compendium of Scottish Ethnography (14 vols)
This review covers books which have been out for a few years now, but which are part of a larger, … Read more
Review: Mary-Jannet Leith, on Scottish Musicians, Music-Making and Culture in Eighteenth Century London 1741-1815
Image: cartoon by Isaak Cruikshank of Jane, 2nd Duchess of Gordon as ‘A Tartan Belle’ (1792) (p.165) Mary-Jannet Leith is … Read more
Review: Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy
In Soundyngs’ very first post in January 2022 we suggested that this site had a working definition of ‘Scottish Music’ … Read more
Review: The Eliza Ross Collection
Image: Raasay House, photo attribution John Darcy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. . This, the … Read more
Gaelic Boating Songs: Ancient and (more) Modern
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
Review: MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe
Soundyngs’ reviews are sometimes of recent works, and other times of books that have recently arrived on Soundyngs shelves and … Read more
Researching Music Publishing in Scotland before 1900: two databases
Featured image: Edinburgh in 1769, from G H Millar, The New and Universal System of Geography c1782 (Morris, Public Domain, … Read more
Robert Burns in the Belfast Linen Hall Library
Summertime is here, and Soundyngs is beginning to get a wee bit itinerant. This post finds us in Belfast’s Linen … Read more
Valentine’s Day with the Corris in Regency Edinburgh
Image: “The Lass of Pattie’s Mill”, lyrics by Allan Ramsay, arranged by Dominico Corri, from his “A New & Complete … Read more