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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
Cover page of the Atholl Collection Catalogue

The Atholl Collection in Perth – catalogue pdf available

25 July 202220 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Bagpipe, Dance, Fiddle, Flute, Song 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
Fiddle sideways

Scottish Fiddle: traces of oral culture in printed 18th century collections?

23 March 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Today’s post discusses one area of ongoing research: the relationship between literate and oral cultures of transmission in the 18th … Read more

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Hugh Cheape

Hugh Cheape: A Fresh Look at the Bagpipe as a ‘National’ Instrument

17 March 202217 March 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Where would you look if you wanted to start researching the Scottish bagpipes?  In recent decades, academic research into Highland … Read more

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