Review: “James Hogg, Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs”, ed. Kirsteen McCue
Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830. CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more
Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830. CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more
New research continues to add detail to our understanding of the role played by dancing in the historical musical life … Read more
Image: Illustration to Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by J.M. Wright and Edward Scriven. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: … Read more
‘Claimed from Stationers’ Hall’ was an AHRC-funded research network (2017-2018), bringing together academic and special collections librarians, book historians and … Read more
Image: Victoria, Australia, painted by Eugene von Guerard. Use free of conditions from www.goodfreephotos.com Soundyngs earlier this year reviewed an … Read more
Photo credit: author, reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History. I had a very … Read more
Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
The National Library of Scotland is continuing to add to its digital archives material and recent press releases draw our … Read more
Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more
Where would you look if you wanted to start researching the Scottish bagpipes? In recent decades, academic research into Highland … Read more