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a cartoon drawing of a woman dressed in a fancy tartan bonnet and dress

Review: Mary-Jannet Leith, on Scottish Musicians, Music-Making and Culture in Eighteenth Century London 1741-1815

14 April 202514 April 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cartoon by Isaak Cruikshank of Jane, 2nd Duchess of Gordon as ‘A Tartan Belle’ (1792) (p.165) Mary-Jannet Leith is … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, bagpipes, HighlandSocietyofLondon, JamesOswald, JohnGow, RobertBremner, ScottishDance Leave a comment
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
Robert Burns's English Guittar

From Epic to Lyric: Macpherson and Oswald’s Ossianic Guittar Music

7 February 202318 October 2022 by Jane Pettegree

In a previous post, Soundyngs reviewed James Porter’s recent monograph, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (2019).  In … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, Guitar, JamesMacpherson, JamesOswald, Ossian, Romantic, Song Leave a comment
General John Reid detail from portrait, holding a flute

Review: Elizabeth C Ford, “The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century”

27 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: detail from Anon., portrait of General John Reid, himself a flute player and composer Elizabeth C. Ford’s recent … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, DavidDow, Flute, JamesOswald, JohnReid, Pibroch Leave a comment

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