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20thCentury

The Testament band playing at Glasgow Trades Hall

Radical Glasgow Songsters

16 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Can history be taught through song?  Well yes, according to a new band, The Tenementals, who are working on their … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, 21stCentury, Bands, FolksongRevival, Glasgow, Song Leave a comment
Engraving from a 19th century book illustration of Auld Lang Syne of men amicably shaking hands

Linking Arms for Auld Lang Syne: Celebrating Friendship

23 December 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Illustration to Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Lang Syne’ by J.M. Wright and Edward Scriven. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: … Read more

Categories General Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, AuldLangSyne, Burns, Song Leave a comment
19th century New South Wales landscape

More on Scottish Music in 19th century Australia

31 October 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Victoria, Australia, painted by Eugene von Guerard. Use free of conditions from www.goodfreephotos.com Soundyngs earlier this year reviewed an … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Australia, Flute, Guitar, Piano, Song Leave a comment

Glasgow Pavilion Theatre: Scottish Music Hall heritage at a crossroads

26 September 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image attribution: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This weekend, it was reported in the Scottish press that … Read more

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Ossian with harp and Malvina

Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”

13 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Modernism, Orchestra, Ossian, Romantic, Songs Leave a comment
A highland dancer dancing a sword dance in a competition

Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”

14 June 20226 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more

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Tolmie NLS MS14906

Frances Tolmie’s Skye Songs: manuscript sources from the National Library of Scotland

11 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

The National Library of Scotland is continuing to add to its digital archives material and recent press releases draw our … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Gaelic, Hebrides, Song Leave a comment
Stornoway Herring Girl

More on the Gaelic Songs of Hebridean Herring Gutters

10 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Gaelic, Herring, Song Leave a comment
Guts Galore poster

Women and Fishing Songs – celebrating Women’s History Month (a foretaste of March 2022)

17 February 2022 by Meg Hyland

Feature: early career researcher Meg Hyland talks about the singing culture of women herring workers. March is celebrated annually in … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Fishing, Gaelic, Song, Women Leave a comment
Dundee Street Songs book title

Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952

14 February 202214 February 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Dundee Street Songs, Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 Introduced, edited and annotated by Margaret Bennett, and illustrated … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Children, Dundee, Education Leave a comment
MacEdward Leach Archive

Scottish Songs in Canada: MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada

11 February 2022 by Jane Pettegree

While digital archives in Scotland hold many riches of traditional music, the Scots, of course, took (and still take) their … Read more

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Singing the Gospel book cover

Singing the Gospel along Scotland’s North-East Coast, 1859-2009

4 February 2022 by Frances Wilkins

Editor: Northern Scotland’s Evangelical revival is an important aspect of religious cultural and tradition which this  book, published in the … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Evangelical, Fishing, Religion Leave a comment

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