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A Fresh Look at the Carmina Gadelica: Recent Research by Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart

25 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: from University of St Andrews Special Collection, first edition of “Carmina Gadelica” vol.1 (Edinburgh, T & A Constable, 1900), … Read more

Categories Articles Tags AlexanderCarmichael, Celticism, Charms, Folklore, Gaelic, Song, Songs 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
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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Ossian with harp and Malvina

Review: James Porter, “Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination”

13 June 2022 by Jane Pettegree

James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Modernism, Orchestra, Ossian, Romantic, Songs Leave a comment
Psalm Boat Singers by Mairi Martin

Gaelic Psalmody as a Soundscape to a Way of Life

28 March 2022 by Frances Wilkins

Photograph credit: Mairi Martin Since 2018, I have been working on the research project, ‘Seinn Coisrigte anns a’ Ghaidhealtachd an … Read more

Categories Articles Tags Gaelic, Highland, Islands, Lewis, Psalms, Songs, Soundscape Leave a comment

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