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Fiddle

Early music ensemble playing fiddle, cello, harpsichord, and recorder

Review: ‘Full of the Highland Humours’, recording by Ensemble Hesperi

24 November 202223 November 2022 by Jane Pettegree

(featured in image): Ensemble Hesperi performers Mary-Jannet Leith – recorders Magdalena Loth-Hill – baroque violin Florence Petit – baroque cello … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 17thCentury, 18thCentury, EnsembleHesperi, Fiddle, Flute, JamesOswald, Recorder, RobertBremner, ThomasErskine Leave a comment
Contemporary College Building in Glasgow

Review: Josephine Miller’s “Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland”

7 November 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Image: the John Wheatley Building and Community College, Haghill, in East End Glasgow, used as the venue for many classes … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 21stCentury, Fiddle, FolkMusic, Glasgow, Pedagogy, TraditionalMusic Leave a comment
Scottish Mountainside near Rothiemurchus

50 Years of the Society of Highland and Island Historical Research: more on musicians and music in Highland society

3 November 2022 by Jane Pettegree

The Society of Highland & Island Historical Research (see Soundyngs post 2/3/22) celebrates this year the 50th anniversary of its … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 17thCentury, 18thCentury, Bagpipe, Clarsach, Fiddle, Highland, Ossian, Song, Strathspey Leave a comment
Fiddle made of pinewood

Fiddles of tin and ship pine

5 September 20225 September 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Although the design has changed over the centuries, from the 18th century onwards Scottish luthiers have embraced the Italian violin … Read more

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Edison Recording Cylinders circa 18955

Scottish Music on Early Cylinder Recordings

31 August 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Before Covid19, the idea of online concerts was rather niche, but in the past two years, these have become an … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Bagpipe, Fiddle, Grammophone, HarryLauder, HistoricRecording, JamesScottSkinner, MusicHall, Phonograph, Song Leave a comment
James Cheechoo playing fiddle at the Blue Lamp, Aberdeen

James Cheechoo (1929-2022), the ‘Last of the James Bay Fiddlers’, and his Scottish Connection

4 July 202230 June 2022 by Frances Wilkins

James Cheechoo (1929-2022), who passed away at the age of 92, on 11 February 2022 in Moose Factory, Northern Ontario, … Read more

Categories Articles Tags Canada, Fiddle, JohnRae, Orkney Leave a comment
Cover page of the Atholl Collection Catalogue

The Atholl Collection in Perth – catalogue pdf available

25 July 202220 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Cover of catalogue – reproduced by kind permission of Culture Perth & Kinross Local & Family History The A K … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Bagpipe, Dance, Fiddle, Flute, Song Leave a comment
Fiddle sideways

Scottish Fiddle: traces of oral culture in printed 18th century collections?

23 March 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Today’s post discusses one area of ongoing research: the relationship between literate and oral cultures of transmission in the 18th … Read more

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Peter Cooke (d.2020)

Dr Peter Cooke (1930-2020). From Ugandan Songs to Shetland Fiddlers: a remarkable digital memorial

17 February 202216 February 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Ethnomusicologists were saddened to learn last year of the death of Dr Peter Cooke, for many years a leading figure … Read more

Categories Articles Tags Fiddle, Pibroch, Shetland, Song, Travellers Leave a comment

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