Review: Frances Tolmie – Gun Sireadh, Gun Iarraigh
Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more
Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more
Image: “The Lass of Pattie’s Mill”, lyrics by Allan Ramsay, arranged by Dominico Corri, from his “A New & Complete … Read more
Soundyngs was rummaging around in the internet this week and found this resource in the webpages of the National Library … Read more
Featured Image: Cover of a 19th Chapbook printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway (author’s own photograph) This is the last of … Read more
Featured Image: Kirkcudbright, by Kenny Lam, from Visit Scotland Website In Soundyngs’ last post, I discussed the song collecting activity … Read more
Featured image: DUNIH 353.22 Dundee linen workers, c.1865, at Cargill & Co. Bleachworks up by DIghty Burn, with thanks to … Read more
Image: from University of St Andrews Special Collection, first edition of “Carmina Gadelica” vol.1 (Edinburgh, T & A Constable, 1900), … Read more
Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830. CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more
While some songs from this new anthology were performed by Seamus Begg in October during the 2022 St Andrews Voices … Read more
Katherine Campbell and Emily Lyle, Robert Burns and the Discovery and Re-Creation of Scottish Song (Glasgow: Musica Scotica, 2020) is … Read more
James Porter, Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (University of Rochester, 2019) James Porter’s examination of the musical … Read more
Photograph credit: Mairi Martin Since 2018, I have been working on the research project, ‘Seinn Coisrigte anns a’ Ghaidhealtachd an … Read more