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Review: Robert Tannahill Songs. 250th Anniversary recordings

13 May 202413 May 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Robert Tannahill’s (1774 to 1810) contribution to Scottish song lyrics is known to Scots song enthusiasts but, in this 250th … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, Radicalism, RobertTannahill, Scots, Song Leave a comment
A stone gargoyle covering its ears with its hands, and making a grotesque face

Older Scots Flyting and Hip Hop

17 July 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: ‘hear no evil’ gargoyle on Paisley Abbey. Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent posts from Soundyngs have been … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags flyting, hiphop, Medieval, Poetry, Renaissance, Scots Leave a comment
James Hogg painted as the Ettrick Shepherd by Sir John Waton Gordon

Review: “James Hogg, Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs”, ed. Kirsteen McCue

9 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830.  CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags 19thCentury, JamesHogg, KirsteenMcCue, Romantic, Scots, Song, Songs, WalterScott Leave a comment
map of Scotland using a collage of old sheet music

Review: The “St Andrews Scottish Songbook”: A New Chapter in a Scots Drawing Room Singing

14 December 202213 December 2022 by Jane Pettegree

While some songs from this new anthology were performed by Seamus Begg in October during the 2022 St Andrews Voices … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags Gaelic, Scots, Song, Songs 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
Robert Burns Black and White Portrait

Review: Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, “Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song”

18 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Burns, Gaelic, Scots, Song, Songs Leave a comment
Scots Folk Singers book cover

Review: Caroline Macafee, “Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections”

11 July 20224 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Caroline Macafee, Scots Folk Singers and their Sources: A Study of Two Major Scottish Song Collections (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2021), … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Ballad, Child, GreigDuncan, Scots, Song, TobarAnDulchais, Travellers Leave a comment

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