Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions … Read more
Aberdeen
Reconstructing Sacred Polyphony from Renaissance Aberdeen
Image: Fragment of written notes, found in the Breviarum Aberdonense, from the National Library of Scotland RB.x.002-003, https://digital.nls.uk/103009037 New research … Read more
Review: Patricia Ballantyne, “Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation”
Patricia Ballantyne, Scottish Dance beyond 1805: reaction and regulation (Routledge, 2019) Like many educated in Scottish schools (even today), I … Read more
Digitised Aberdeen records shed new light on Robert Carver’s connections with the city
For some time now it has been known that the Renaissance Scottish composer Robert Carver, spent most of his life … Read more