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Street in Dysart, Fife, in 1920s, with a traditional Scottish towerhouse shown in foreground

‘Give Me Your Hand’: Fife connections for this traditional tune

7 July 2025 by Keith Sanger

Image: The Towers, Dysart, Fife image from author’s own collection. The Towers, in Dysart’s East Quality Street, was an elegant … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 17thCentury, Clarsach, Fife, Lute, Song Leave a comment
3 women laughing at a soldier pushing another soldier in a wheelbarrow

Orcadian war songs: new flytings, old tunes

23 June 202523 June 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Five naval colleagues at Lyness, Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, where the main naval base for the British fleet, … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 20thCentury, Orkney, soldiers, Song Leave a comment
A Georgian country house set in lawns with a backdrop of forested hillside

Review: The Eliza Ross Collection

3 February 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Raasay House, photo attribution John Darcy, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. . This, the … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, bagpipes, ElizaRoss, Gaelic, Raasay, Skye, Song Leave a comment
Songs of the Hebrides album cover with water colour suggesting waves and heather colours

Review: Marjory Kennedy Fraser’s Songs of the Hebrides: a virtual concert-lecture

2 December 2024 by Joan Busby

Soundyngs editor writes: recently I visited Joan Busby, and a cup of tea turned into a wonderful private 2 hour … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Gaelic, KennedyFraser, Song Leave a comment
A house plaque with Ronald Centre 1913 to 1973 Composer lived here

Review: Ronald Center (1913-73) : Centenary and Beyond

30 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

This week’s post on a talented but undeservedly neglected composer has been prompted by some recent chat with Jamie Reid … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Choir, Piano, Song Leave a comment
Engraving of a man in early 19th century dress with his finger to his cheek

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
Book cover The life and legacy of Alexander Carmichael

Review: The Life & Legacy of Alexander Carmichael

2 April 20241 April 2024 by Catherine Helferty

Soundyngs welcomes guest writer Catherine Helferty, BMus BEd, who is an MLitt candidate in Sacred Music at the University of … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, AlexanderCarmichael, CarminaGadelica, Gaelic, Song Leave a comment
Portrait of Robert Burns with landscape background

The Burns 1859 Centenary

25 January 202425 January 2024 by Jane Pettegree

As its local supermarket is currently awash with haggis, neeps, tatties, shortbread and that bright orange fizzy drink that provokes … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, Burns, Song Leave a comment
Christmas tree made from quilted squares, Barra community centre in the background

A Gaelic Christmas

25 December 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Castlebay, Barra’s, 2020 Christmas tree made by islanders who spent the Covid lockdown making squares for this wonderful thing. … Read more

Categories Articles Tags Christmas, Gaelic, Song Leave a comment
cover page of a book of Circus tunes, reels and strathspeys published in 1791

Review: ‘Music by Subscription’: music publishing in Scotland in the 18th and early 19thc

11 December 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed At Edinburgh this Season, with the Addition of Some New Reels and Strathspeys … Read more

Categories General Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Book, Edinburgh, MusicPublishing, NielGow, Reel, Song, Strathspey Leave a comment
Manuscript copy from Wode Psalter left hand side man playing a shawm holding a psalter

Review: Jhone Angus: Monk of Dunfermline & Scottish Reformation Music

27 November 2023 by Jane Pettegree

The story of the Scottish Reformation and its music is here brought into focus by the biography of Jhone (John) … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 16thCentury, Canticles, Dunfermline, JohnAngus, MusicFyne, Psalms, Reformation, Song 2 Comments
Front of book title Scottish Students Song Book with shield showing lion, and many thistles

The Scottish Students’ Song Book: University Freshers’ Fun, old-style

30 October 2023 by Rosa Michaelson

Editor: as nights draw in and we begin to spend more time indoors, Rosa Michaelson invites us to think about … Read more

Categories General Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Empire, Song, University Leave a comment
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