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
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The Atholl Collection in Perth – catalogue pdf available
Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … 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
Scottish Fiddle: traces of oral culture in printed 18th century collections?
Today’s post discusses one area of ongoing research: the relationship between literate and oral cultures of transmission in the 18th … Read more
Hugh Cheape: A Fresh Look at the Bagpipe as a ‘National’ Instrument
Where would you look if you wanted to start researching the Scottish bagpipes? In recent decades, academic research into Highland … Read more