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
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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
Review: A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity Scotland’s Printed Music 1880-1951
Karen McAulay has, until this summer, been a librarian at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, and she brings her skills as … 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
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
Remembering Dundee’s Music Halls
Featured Image: Dundee People’s Palace Programme 1891 (with thanks to Billy Rough) A recent exhibition in the Dundee Central Library … Read more
Review: Robert Tannahill Songs. 250th Anniversary recordings
Robert Tannahill’s (1774 to 1810) contribution to Scottish song lyrics is known to Scots song enthusiasts but, in this 250th … Read more
Review: Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment
Strike Up, Strike Sure: The Pipes and Drums of the London Scottish Regiment by Duncan da Silva Scottish military music … Read more
Joe Aitken and Bothy Ballads
Image: Joe Aitken winning the Bothy Ballands Champion of Champions in 2020, photo credit Daniel Forsyth, from Grampian Online. The … Read more
Review: The Life & Legacy of Alexander Carmichael
Soundyngs welcomes guest writer Catherine Helferty, BMus BEd, who is an MLitt candidate in Sacred Music at the University of … Read more
Review: Frances Tolmie – Gun Sireadh, Gun Iarraigh
Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more
Caithness Town Bands and the performance of local identity in the 19th Century
Drawing aside the veil, Soundyngs is mostly written by Jane Pettegree of the University of St Andrews, and as that … Read more