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Thursday, 3 September 2015

Scottish Song Tunes, about 290 Years Ago!

Time Travel with a Tablet?

Musick for Allan Ramsay's Collection 

With some excitement, yesterday, we opened this digital copy of one of Scotland's earliest song-tune collections.

Allan Ramsay compiled a collection of song texts. Alexander Stuart compiled a tune-book to go with the words, in the mid-1720s. And here's the digitized work, all the way from the University of South Carolina!

You can save the whole book to an iPad or tablet, and play the tunes out of it. What could be cooler than that?



Thursday, 1 May 2014

Scottish Traditional Music Survey - Dr Simon McKerrell



You are invited to fill out a new survey on Scottish traditional music and to contribute to a greater understanding of how it is experienced in communities in Scotland and abroad. The survey is being conducted by Dr Simon McKerrell at Newcastle University for the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK project, Understanding Scotland Musically. Please find the survey at the following link:

The results of this survey will be used to inform research about Scottish traditional music in communities, policy and practice. If you have any questions, please contact Simon McKerrell, simon.mckerrell@ncl.ac.uk.

More information about the project is available at www.musicalmeaning.com Simon is conducting this widespread survey for a research project on Scottish traditional music - please do encourage as many interested people to fill it in as possible and circulate widely, the greater the circulation, the more meaningful the results. Simon hopes to gather as wide a purposive sample as possible from the community of interest in Scottish traditional music and will be publishing the results on the project website.

Friday, 30 November 2012

SoundEffects, a new open-source electronic journal from Aarhus

'Whittaker' was alerted to this new electronic journal by a blogpost from Bibliolore.

SoundEffects was launched by Aarhus University in 2011. It is interdisciplinary, open-source and peer-reviewed.  It appears to be something you just sign up to, for free.  Very much worth a look!