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Evening Times (Glasgow) 30th August 2011 - Tributes after death of Alasdair . Daily Record 30th August 2011 - Lament for late Alasdair Gil...

Beethoven MSS and sketches online at two American libraries:-  Morgan Library and Museum. Music Manuscripts online .  Here's the Beetho...

Musica Scotica's seventh annual conference Saturday 28th April 2012 Concert Hall, University of Glasgow Papers, 20 minutes in length , ...

ON THIS DAY, 200 years ago ... Poet, scholar and song-collector John Leyden died in Java, on 27th August 1811.  He was from the village of ...

Beethoven Haus - Digital archives If you're seeking digital Beethoven material, why not start here? Image from the Beethoven-Haus ...

The Child Ballads are a key component of the British traditional repertoire. Collector Francis James Child assembled and published a vast co...

Scoop It - online journal for researchers, by The Thesis Whisperer   Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .

Welcome to the Beethoven Center at San Jose State University - a useful source of information about Ludwig van Beethoven. Posted from Diig...

Golden pages - conference listings for musicologists Anyone doing music research will be grateful for this website, if they haven't yet...

Have you come across PhDChat?  I blogged about this before - you can join in the Twitter conversation with Nasima Riazat on Wednesdays, fol...

In a fit of pure introspection, I tried to work out what my motivations were when I went to Waterstones and W H Smiths today. Obviously, I c...

There's a crane outside.  They're not demolishing us - just changing our name ...! http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/ just a few days longer...

Does paying uni fees make you a customer?  A customer like someone who buys something in a shop? Here's a thought-provoking blogpost o...

On this day ... ANNIVERSARY - Today, 23 August, James Simpson married Cecilia Elder in Dundee in 1834.  The three precious flute manusc...

Indian summer: Surupa Sen brings classical dance to the Festival.  Cover story, The Herald Arts [Magazine] 20 August 2011 - about the Indian...

Scottish National Portrait Gallery , Edinburgh Watch out for a new exhibition commencing 30 November 2011: Photos by our own Ken Dundas w...

The Herald Magazine 20 August 2011 Different Class : Ruby Wax and a Cast of Famous Faces reveal what really goes on at Scotland's Sch...

Have you tried sharing documents on Googledocs yet? 'Using Googledocs in Drama' has been blogged on the Drama Teacher' s Netw...

LITTLE-KNOWN TODAY, FAMOUS IN HIS DAY... 20th August.  William Chappell, antiquarian author, ballad and song collector, died 123 years ago...

Have you come across the Scottish Poetry Library?  Their website is appropriately named, Reading Room . Click the link to find out more.  ...