Review: Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs
Image: cover, Jock Duncan: The Man and his Songs, compiled and edited by Peter Shepheard (Perth: Rymer Books, 2024) Jock … Read more
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Review: The John M Mason Collection
Soundyngs’ workplace recently received an impressively weighty 2 volume hardback collection of fiddle tunes by John M Mason (1940-2011), co-founder … Read more
Review: Take It To The Bridge
Image: Tay Road Bridge, approaching Dundee in the slow land (2001), Colin Smith CC BY-SA-2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tay_Road_Bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_97596.jpg Dundee: once, jute, jam … 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
Canna House Reopens – a wish for the archive
Image: Canna House before refurbishment, Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The National Trust for Scotland … Read more
Orcadian war songs: new flytings, old tunes
Image: Five naval colleagues at Lyness, Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, where the main naval base for the British fleet, … Read more
Scottish Music Centre: Curating Scottish Composers and Composition
It’s a strange thing for folk like this writer to realise that stuff going on in our youth is now … Read more
Review: Jeannie Robertson: The Queen Among the Heather
Following up on our previous post about the music associated with the Battle of Harlaw, Soundyngs is reviewing a recording … 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
Hamish Henderson: centenary and legacy
This post is something of a late ripple washing back from the tsunami of writing that celebrated, back in 2019, … 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