Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century - New Online Resource

The University of Glasgow has this week launched a great new resource about songs by Robert Burns. Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century is an AHRC-funded Project to produce a multi-volume edition of the Works of Robert Burns. It's led by Kirsteen McCue,

Professor of Scottish Literature & Song Culture and Co-Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies in the Scottish Literature Department.

There's lots to explore.  It all started with this:- 

"The Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow recently secured a major AHRC research grant to produce a multi-volume edition of Robert Burns’s work, which will be published by Oxford University Press. The project, ‘Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century’, began in 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, and will take at least 15 years to complete."   Read more on the website!

http://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/

Hey, Look! Nathaniel Gow's Dance Band

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Nathaniel Gow's Dance Band

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Concerto Caledonia

Fiddle Music from 

 Scottish Printed Sources 1761-1823

 

Hey, look! We have a new CD - the latest Concerto Caledonia release, produced as an outcome from the recent AHRC-funded Bass Culture project - or, to use its offficial name, Historic Music of Scotland.  We've added it to stock immediately, needless to say!

Commonwealth Games - Musicians Everywhere, and here's a Tune for them!

With so much happening in Glasgow at the moment, there are musicians everywhere - Merchant City, Glasgow Green ...

Here's a highly appropriate fiddle tune from John Riddell's A Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets etc: 'The Bonny Green of Glasgow'.

The Bonny Green of Glasgow

It's one of the tunes Karen's looking at in the AHRC-funded Bass Culture project.  Riddell's bass-lines were basic (excuse the pun) to say the least! But effective all the same, we think.

Here's the next tune in the book: 'Miss Lillie Ritchie's Reel'.

Miss Lillie Ritchie's Reel

See what we mean?!  The collection is one of a number of late 18th and early 19th century fiddle tune books being digitised for the project.  You can read more about this research on the project blog:- http://bassculture.info/.

Funded AHRC Music Research Studentship - Fabulous Opportunity

We're sharing this information at the request of our music librarian colleagues in the British Library:-

"AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship: Music, print and culture in the 16th and early 17th centuries

"Applications are invited for an AHRC collaborative PhD studentship, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, and The British Library, on the theme of 'Music, print and culture in the 16th and early 17th centuries'. The studentship commences in autumn 2014. Full details are here: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/news/newsarticles/newcollaborativephdfundingscheme.aspx

"The deadline for receipt of applications (including two references) is Thursday 13th March 2014. Interviews will be held at the British Library on Friday 28th March and Wednesday 2nd April 2014.

"Informal enquiries to Stephen Rose (stephen.rose@rhul.ac.uk)."

AHRC gets Passionate about Performance - Take a Look!

Passionate about Performance

Our friends up the road at Glasgow School of Art have kindly alerted us to this AHRC-funded project, the report of which was released on 1st October 2013.

 

There's a film to see on YouTube, too.

 

Take a look!

 

The results are being disseminated in a short new film, “Passionate about Performance,” which is released online today. Watch the film via the AHRC’s YouTube channel (opens in new window).

AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice

 

Systems Developer needed for AHRC-funded project into Scottish Fiddle Tune Accompaniments

Some Whittaker Live followers will be aware that Music and Academic Services Librarian Karen McAulay is currently seconded part-time to an AHRC funded post in the Music Dept at the University of Glasgow.   The research is into historic Scottish fiddle tune basslines and accompaniments.

The project needs another team member in the shape of a systems developer for the next stage in this research.

Systems developer post for AHRC funded project - details of vacancy here - please do share advert!

See the Bass Culture blog here:- http://bassculture.info/

Money for Music Research

AHRC Doctoral Studentship (PhD)

The Open University in Collaboration with the National Library of Scotland

Do you fancy doing doctoral research in Edinburgh?  As part of 'The Arts and their Audences', the Open University is able to offer this fully-funded studentship.

• Details of Arts and Humanities Studentships at the Open University
• Music Research at the Open University
• NLS Music Collections

Bass Culture in Scottish Musical Traditions

We have a blog for our AHRC-funded research project!

http://bassculture.info/

 

 

 

Time to find out about the AHRC

Students researching in the humanities will already know about the AHRC.  But how much do you know about the bigger picture?

• There are Research Themes
• There's a new international blog, Research beyond Borders
• There are four new Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy (one's in Dundee, and the others in Lancaster, London and the West of England). Watch a short film about this initiative here.

Aiming for a research career?  You need to be able to 'talk the talk' about the bigger issues. And what better place to start?