Song and the Crofters War: Mhàiri Mhòr nan Òran
Once again, Soundyngs hangs its head in shame for not being a Gaelic speaker, which is particularly unfortunate given that … Read more
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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
Sounding the Archive: Cathy Lane, Soundscapes and History-making
Image: The Machair on Berneray, Outer Hebrides, By Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0. Soundyngs is interested in different approaches to … Read more
Review: The Coigach & Assynt Collection
Music, place, and people are woven together in this collection from the far north-west of Scotland. Subtitled ‘òrain, sgeulachdan, puirt’ … Read more
Review: Alexander ‘Battan’ Grant, 1856-1942
Image – the rondello, from Inverness Museums, in Smartify.org Art is long, and life is short, alas; people often need … 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
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