Review: Mary-Jannet Leith, on Scottish Musicians, Music-Making and Culture in Eighteenth Century London 1741-1815
Image: cartoon by Isaak Cruikshank of Jane, 2nd Duchess of Gordon as ‘A Tartan Belle’ (1792) (p.165) Mary-Jannet Leith is … Read more
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Review: Harlaw Scotland 1411
When Soundyngs started back in January 2022, we were already 11 years after the 600th anniversary of the Battle of … Read more
Review: The Eliza Ross Collection
Image: Raasay House, photo attribution John Darcy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. . This, the … Read more
Review: MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe
Soundyngs’ reviews are sometimes of recent works, and other times of books that have recently arrived on Soundyngs shelves and … Read more
Edwardian Music Rooms in Scottish Great Houses
Featured image: Fyvie Castle Music Gallery (author’s own photographs) “Domestic music-making” means different things in different homes. Soundyngs learnt recently … Read more
Post-colonial Bagpiping: Nigeria in context
Featured image: from article, Jane Flanagan, ‘Skirl of the bagpipes thrills Nigeria’, The Times Feb 29 2020 At the end … Read more