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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

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Waulking 18th century engraving

Review: Virginia Blankenhorn, “Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song”

11 July 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Virginia Blankenhorn, Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Scottish Gaelic Poetry and Song (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019) ISBN 978-1-78874-552-9 Virginia Blankenhorn … Read more

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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
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
Lesmahagow Missal NLS229918121

Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland

25 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Of interest to medievalists and early modern historians more generally, the NLS has completed its digitisation project for Medieval and … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 13thCentury, 15thCentury, 16thCentury, Medieval, Renaissance, Sacred, SacredMusic, Song Leave a comment
Tolmie NLS MS14906

Frances Tolmie’s Skye Songs: manuscript sources from the National Library of Scotland

11 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

The National Library of Scotland is continuing to add to its digital archives material and recent press releases draw our … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Gaelic, Hebrides, Song Leave a comment
Stornoway Herring Girl

More on the Gaelic Songs of Hebridean Herring Gutters

10 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

Meg Hyland, mentioned in an earlier Soundyngs post, has now published her first article on the Gaelic songs of herring … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Gaelic, Herring, Song Leave a comment
Muses Threnodie Title Page

Perth and Musical Muses in 1638

12 May 20224 May 2022 by Jane Pettegree

‘Reading Scotland before 1707’ is the title of the symposium co-hosted by the Folger Research library and the University of … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 17thCentury, Bagpipe, Guitar, Lute, Perth, Protestant, Song Leave a comment
Guts Galore poster

Women and Fishing Songs – celebrating Women’s History Month (a foretaste of March 2022)

17 February 2022 by Meg Hyland

Feature: early career researcher Meg Hyland talks about the singing culture of women herring workers. March is celebrated annually in … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Fishing, Gaelic, Song, Women Leave a comment
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

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MacEdward Leach Archive

Scottish Songs in Canada: MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada

11 February 2022 by Jane Pettegree

While digital archives in Scotland hold many riches of traditional music, the Scots, of course, took (and still take) their … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Canada, Folklore, Gaelic, Song Leave a comment
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