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An oval table with sheet music and a wooden flute

Burns’s Family Flute and Other Pastoral Pipes

29 September 202529 September 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Burns Family Flute display from Ellisland Farm Museum.  Please see Further Reading for their site and how to contribute … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, AllanRamsay, Burns, Flute, Pastoral, tinwhistle, whistle Leave a comment
Shepherds and Tea Tables text, above a cartoon of two scenes from the 18th century, one a shepherd, the other a lady sitting at a tea table set for afternoon tea. Also listing the artists on this album.

Review: Concerto Caledonia, “Shepherds & Tea Tables: Songs of Allan Ramsay”

15 March 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Concerto Caledonia currently lead the field in historically-informed performances of Scottish music, and bring to their work awareness of both … Read more

Categories General Tags 18thCentury, AllanRamsay, Ballad, BalladOpera, Fiddle, Flute, Pastoral, Song, Violin Leave a comment
The Gentle Shepherd meets his long-lost father engraving from 18th century edition

Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’: new scholarly edition with music

25 July 202225 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: plate by David Allan, from The Gentle Shepherd (Glasgow: A Foulis, 1788), an edition with music, from the University … Read more

Categories General, Reviews Tags 18thCentury, AllanRamsay, Scots, Song Leave a comment

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